Katherine Lauderdale Vol. 1 of 2

Katherine Lauderdale; Vol. 1 of 2

BY F. MARION CRAWFORD Author of saracinesca, Pietro Ghisleri, etc. Vol. I With Illustrations by Alfred Brennan New York MACMILLAN AND CO. AND LONDON 1894 All rights reserved Copyright, 1893, By F. MARION CRAWFORD. Norwood Press: J. S. Cushing & Co.Berwick & Smith. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. If its anything, its faith in a gaseous state, my dear man, and therefore even less visible and less like anything than the common or market faith, so to saythe kind you get at from ten cents to a dollar the seats worth, on Sundays, according to the charge at the particular place of worship your craving for salvation leads you to frequent. Bright laughed again as he spoke, but he glanced at his friend with a look of interest which had some anxiety in it. John Ralston was said to drink, and Bright was his good angel, ever striving to be entertained unawares, and laughing when he was found out in his good intentions. But if Bright was a very normal being, Ralston was a very abnormal one, and was, to some extent, a weak man, though not easily influenced by strong men. A glance at his face would have convinced any one of thata keen, nervous, dark face, with those deep lines from the nostrils to the corners of the mouth which denote uncertain, and even dangerous tempersa square, bony jaw, aggressive rather than firm, but not coarsethe nose, aquiline but delicatethe eyes, brown, restless, and bright, the prominence of the temples concealing the eyelids entirely when raisedthe forehead, broad, high, and visibly lean like all the featuresthe hair, black and straightthe cheek bones, moderately prominent. Possibly John Ralston had a dash of the Indian in his physical inheritance, which showed itself, as it almost always does, in a melancholic disposition, great endurance and an unnatural love of excitement in almost any shape, together with an inborn idleness which it was hard to overcome. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50607
Author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Release Date: Dec 4, 2015
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Language: English