The Railway Man and His Children

The Railway Man and His Children

The news that Miss Ferrars was going to marry Mr. Rowland the engineer, ran through the station like wildfire, producing a commotion and excitement which had rarely been equalled since the time of the Mutiny. Miss Ferrars! and Mr. Rowland!it was repeated in every tone of wonder and astonishment, with as many audible notes of admiration and interrogation as would fill a whole page. Impossible! people said, I dont believe it for a momentYou dont mean to say But when Mrs. Stanhope, who was Miss Ferrars friend, with whom she had been living, answered calmly that this was indeed what she meant to say, and that she was not very sure whether she was most sorry or gladmost pleased to think that her friend was thus comfortably established in life, or sorry that she was perhaps stepping a little out of her spherethere remained nothing for her visitors but a universal gape of amazement, a murmur of deprecation or{v.1-2} regretOh, poor Miss Ferrars! the ladies cried. A lady, of such a good family, and marrying a man who was certainly not a gentleman. But he is a very good fellow, the gentlemen said; and one or two of the mothers who were conscious in their hearts, though they did not say anything of the fact, that had he proposed for Edie or Ethel, they would have pushed his claims as far as legitimate pressure could go, held their tongues or said little, with a feeling that they had themselves escaped the criticism which was now so freely poured forth. They were aware indeed that it would have come upon them more hotly, for it was they who would have been blamed in the case of Ethel or Edie, whereas Miss Femurs was responsible for herself. But the one of them who would have been most guilty, and who indeed had thought a good deal about Mr. Rowland, and considered the question very closely whether she ought not as a matter of duty to endeavour to interest him in her Ethel, whose name was Dorothy, took up the matter most hotly, and declared that she could not imagine how a lady could make up her mind to such a descent Not a gentleman: why, he does not even pretend to be a gentleman, said the lady, as if the pretention would have been something in his favour. He is not a man even of any education. Oh I know he can read and write and do figuresall those surveyor men can. Yes, I call him a surveyorI dont call him an engineer. What was he to begin with? Why he came out in charge of some machinery or something! None of them have any right to call themselves engineers. I call them all{v.1-3} surveyorsworking menthat sort of thing! and to think that a woman who really is a lady ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 59424
Author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English