Idols in the Heart: A Tale

Idols in the Heart: A Tale

My dear girls, I can indeed enter into your feelings, said Lady Selina Mountjoy in a tone of sympathy; it is trying to have to welcome a stranger to your home, to see her take the place once occupied by your dear departed mother. I understandI understand perfectly, said Lady Selina, with an expressive movement of the head; if your dear papa had chosen differentlysome one whom you knew, valued, could confide insome one, in short, of your mothers position in life, to whom you could look up as to a second parent, it would have been very different; but the orphan of a country doctorso young, so inexperiencedto have her placed at the head of an establishment like this, isBut I ought not to speak thus; of course your dear papa has chosen very well, very wisely; no doubt Mrs. Effingham is a very charming creature; and the lady leaned back on her cushioned chair, folded her hands, and looked into the fire with an air of melancholy meditation. Vincent, the youngest of the party, a boy about eleven years of age, had been sitting at the table with a book before him, but had never turned over a leaf, drinking in eagerly every word uttered by his aunt on the subject of the step-mother whose arrival with her husband was now hourly expected in Belgrave Square. He was a bright, intelligent boy, in whose blue eyes every passing emotion was mirrored as in a glass, whether the feeling were good or evil. The expression of those eyes was neither kind nor gentle as he said abruptly, Didnt you tell us that her grandmother was a Frenchwoman? I do hate and detest everything French! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 60486
Author: A. L. O. E., 1821-1893
Release Date: Oct 13, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English