Grace Lee Volume 2; a tale
Julia Kavanagh
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 17, 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. 1855 Excerpt: ...you but would give me a right to protect and defend you--how soon their serpent tongues should be silent." "Humph!" sceptically growled Doctor Crankey. Owen turned sharply on him; his eyes lit with a man's dignity and pride; his smile was haughty and secure, as he said: "And do you think, sir, that any one would dare to assail my wife's fair name, or that if any one were so bold, I could not find the remedy?" "Well, I dare say you would," honestly replied Doctor Crankey, "and indeed," he added, with a sigh, "you will do well, Grace, to accept Mr. Owen's offer. He has honour, and if I say so I may be trusted, for I never liked him much, as he knows, and as I say to his face, for I scorn a lie as I scorn the devil. He will be too, what I alas cannot be to you, a protector. I am a priest, a man of peace; I cannot be suspected of giving bad advice. He knows, and will, I trust, remember the precept that forbids man to shed the blood of an erring brother. Anything like violence I must in the most earnest manner deprecate. Yet there is no denying that if the editor of the 'W Chronicle' were to get a good horsewhipping--but heaven forbid I should be understood as suggesting any such unchristian proceeding; yet, as I said, if by any chance--" Grace interrupted him. She fixed on Owen a glance of calm pride, and leaning back in her chair, she said quietly:' "And what can you do for me, Mr. Owen?" "I can right and avenge you." "Can you silence slander?" "Ay, and crush it." "And do you know all--all that is said of me?" "I think I do." "Do you know," she continued, with a heightened colour, "that Grace Lee has been, and is daily, outraged in ...