The Second Blooming (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (George, W. L.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Second Blooming Mrs. Westfield was smiling as her grey, rather inquisitive little eyes took in, one by one, these seven people who were making, she thought, a gratifying amount of noise. Seven were not a very great many, but then they knew one another well, were parted by no reticences; indeed they were linked by interest and the desire to astonish one another a little; this dinner had caused competitions to meet. There were sisters hoping that a dress might be envied; brothers-in-law flaunting a reputation or a car. Mrs. Westfield was amused; she did not understand everything, but what she understood she understood clearly; her shrewdness had a finite scope and was no scalpel to dissect the seven souls about her, but she knew the nature of her daughters´ domestic rivalries, the ambitions of her sons-in-law and the modest passions of her old friend Sturry. She drew inferences from the inflections of voices, could speak the private slang her daughters had evolved when they were schoolgirls. "It´s a large family," said Mrs. Westfield, "still the boys will be all right, and the girls... will marry - " Something within her seemed startled. 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.
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