Lady Connie

Lady Connie

Well, now weve done all we can, and all I mean to do, said Alice Hooper, with a pettish accent of fatigue. Everythings perfectly comfortable, and if she doesnt like it, we cant help it. I dont know why we make such a fuss. The speaker threw herself with a gesture of fatigue into a dilapidated basket-chair that offered itself. It was a spring day, and the windows of the old schoolroom in which she and her sister were sitting were open to a back garden, untidily kept, but full of fruit-trees just coming into blossom. Through their twinkling buds and interlacing branches could be seen grey college wallspart of the famous garden front of St. Cyprians College, Oxford. There seemed to be a slight bluish mist over the garden and the building, a mist starred with patches of white and dazzlingly green leaf. And, above all, there was an evening sky, peaceful and luminous, from which a light wind blew towards the two girls sitting by the open window. One, the elder, had a face like a Watteau sketch, with black velvety eyes, hair drawn back from a white forehead, delicate little mouth, with sharp indentations at the corners, and a small chin. The other was much more solidly builta girl of seventeen, in a plump phase, which however an intelligent eye would have read as not likely to last; a complexion of red and brown tanned by exercise; an expression in her clear eyes which was alternately frank and ironic; and an inconvenient mass of golden brown hair. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 13501
Author: Ward, Humphry
Release Date: Sep 20, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946