Books with author Gordon Roy

Excerpt from His Cousin Adair, Vol. 1 of 3If you are dying to know, the best plan would be to give me the letter at once, or to read it for yourself. It is not likely that there will be any secrets in it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from His Cousin Adair, Vol. 1 of 3If you are dying to know, the best plan would be to give me the letter at once, or to read it for yourself. It is not likely that there will be any secrets in it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from His Cousin Adair, Vol. 2 of 3Douglas and Lord Romer himself, with sev eral others, were off earliest in the morning, only returning when compelled to leave off by the darkness. They would come in when dinner was half over, and would often ad journ at once to the smoking-room, without coming to the drawing-room at all. Had it not been for this daily prospect of escape for long hours upon the open hills and moors, for which no explanation or excuse was required, Douglas felt he could not have got through these days at all. His intercourse with Miss Charteris was narrowed down to some brief chance meeting, or to the hour after dinner, when anything like a té'te-d-téte was impos sible. So at least he told himself, though, under other circumstances, the great room, with its shadowy corners and changing groups.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.