Linda Condon the Happy End Gold and Iron Java Head the Three Black Pennys (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hergesheimer, Joseph

9781330265123: Linda Condon the Happy End Gold and Iron Java Head the Three Black Pennys (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330265122 ISBN 13: 9781330265123

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Linda Condon the Happy End Gold and Iron Java Head the Three Black Pennys

His companion, a wistfully pale girl under an absurd and expensive hat, laid her hand in an embroidered white silk glove on his arm and said in a low tone: We won't bother him, Calvin. There are plenty of ministers in Washington; or we could come back later.

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Excerpt from Linda Condon the Happy End Gold and Iron Java Head the Three Black Pennys

The maid, smartly capped in starched ruffled muslin and black, who admitted them to the sombre luxury of the rectory, hesitated in unconcealed sulky disfavour.

"Doctor Goodlowe has hardly started dinner," she asserted.

"Just ask him to come out for a little," the man repeated.

He was past middle age, awkward in harsh, ill-fitting and formal clothes, and with a gaunt, high-boned countenance and clear blue eyes.

His companion, a wistfully pale girl under an absurd and expensive hat, laid her hand in an embroidered white silk glove on his arm and said in a low tone: "We won't bother him, Calvin. There are plenty of ministers in Washington; or we could come back later."

"There are, and we could," he agreed; "but we won't. I'm not going to wait a minute more for you, Lucy. Not now that you are willing. Why, I have been waiting half my life already."

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A gaunt young man with clear blue eyes sat on the bank of a mountain road and gazed at the newly-built house opposite. It was the only dwelling visible.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.