Books with author Mrs S. C. Hall

Excerpt from There Is No Hurry!: A TaleAs if to give the strongest dramatic effect to Charles's opinion, the nurse at that moment opened the drawing-room door, and four little laughing children rushed into the room.There - are four reasons against your e nding your income exactly as you please; unless, indeed, part 0 your plan be to pro vide for them, answered Charles very seriously.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.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...will any one be bothered with her nonsical books at this time o' day?' says I. "' Ay,' says he-'and jump,' says he. 'Sure the big booksellers would give their eyes to have a my-lady stuck at the beginning of a book, it makes such a beautiful blowcard--cuts a splash. Poor ignorant craythurs! to think that a my-lady and my-lord must write well; though it's not always by the laws of primogeniture they'd do it!' "'They don't, then,' says I, 'for I've seen a lord's writing that couldn't be read.' He fetched a laugh at that, and I tould him thin, that as the booksellers liked grandee writin', I wondered they didn't get The Duke himself to make a book--then, indeed, they'd have something worth readin'; and he laughed agin at that, and said it would be a hit. "Miss Marian, jewel, you've had a fine deal of larning--couldn't you make a book? Sure, the history of yer own life." "I've no history to tell yet-" said Marian, smiling at her nurse's opinion of her abilities; ' and even if I had, I have no name to set it off." "If you could, Johnny Donovan, the boy who tould me about Lady Bab, would tell me how you might make by it; he's porter to that big bookseller in--I forget the name of the street; he will tell me when Lady Bab and her dirty paper come to town, and thin I'll fish out news of Lady Isabel--I know she will be true to her word." "She gave no promise to serve me, nurse." "She did the same thing, my jewel: she said, 'I was to find her if ever you war in trouble of any sort or if Mrs. Jones changed.' Sure that's the same thing, isn't it? Where's the use of fishing in sorrow if we don't fish some good out of it?--One don't want to hear when such as you is in trouble, but only just to get ye out of it.&...

A tour through Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve introduces the park's flora, fauna, topography, history, weather, and attractions. Mount McKinley, Kantishna, and Athabascan influences are all discussed. Additional features to aid in comprehension include a table of contents, informative captions and sidebars, detailed maps, map legends, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, and an index.