All the year round Volume 38
Charles Dickens
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 14, 2012)
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. 1886 Excerpt: ...and relatives living there now. "I asked you, mamma, in my letters; but you forgot to answer me," Vera said, and got short answer then. That miserable,.vulgar mystery, the false and petty shame for her own parentage and upbringing, kept up so long before her own daughter, held the mother silent and reserved still, even on subjects which might otherwise have been most natural and pleasant to her; while her consciousness of Vera's unsuspecting ignorance of the way in which she was even then being disposed of made her nervously anxious to check, rather than invite, the least approach to confidence on the subject of the young lover whom this very disposal rendered it necessary to brush out of the girl's memory. Quite suddenly the Count moved. Odcb or twice, perhaps, he had allowed a shade of something more than friendly warmth, a slight liberty of gaze, a longer pressure of the hand to invade the bland and courteous prudence of his demeanour when with the young girl; and Vera had shrunk back instantly, startled only perhaps the first time, but with unmistakable flinching and repugnance on the latter occasions. A little while ago she might have let these manifestations pass without notice or question; but those who have even nibbled at the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge get to know the colour of its leaves, and totremble without even understanding. The Count felt that he had been repulsed, and, piqued and disgusted, determined to move all the quicker. He saw M. St. Laurent alone the very next day. The Bight of Translating Articles from ALL THE Ykar Round is reserved by the Authors. Published at the Offloe, 26, Wellington Street, Strand. Printed by CHARIM Diokkib ft SVAH8. M, Great New Street, E.C. I ALEXIA. By ELEANOR C. PRICE, Author of " Oerald....