Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Wives and daughters, and every-day story
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com Sept. 13, 2013)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...Strfi to say, in these latter days Molly had looked upon Osbol' relation to herself as pretty much the same as that in W1 at one time she had regarded Roger's; and she thougl the former as of some one as nearly a brother b0fl Cynthia and herself as any young man could well be W they had not known in childhood, and who was in 110' related to them. She thought that he was very much improved in manner, and probably in character, by his mother's death. He was no longer sarcastic, or fastidious, or vain, or self-confident. She did not know how often all these styles of talk or of behaviour are put on to conceal shyness or consciousness, and to veil the real self from strangers. Osborne's conversation and ways might very possibly have been just the same as before, had he been thrown amongst new people; but Molly only saw him in their own circle, in which he was on terms of decided intimacy. Still, there was no doubt that he was really improved, though perhaps not to the extent for which Molly gave him credit; and this exaggeration on her part arose very naturally from the fact, that he, perceiving Roger's warm admiration for Cynthia, withdrew a little out of his brother's way, and used to go and talk to Molly, in order not to intrude himself between Roger and Cynthia. Of the two, perhaps, Osborne preferred Molly; to her he needed not to talk, if the mood was not on him--they were on those happy terms where silence is permissible, and where efi'orts to act against the prevailing mood of the mind are not required. Sometimes, indeed, when Osborne was in the humour to be critical and fastidious as of yore, he used to vex Roger by insisting upon it that Molly was prettier than Cynthia. "You mark my words, Roger!...
- ISBN
- 1236871073 / 9781236871077
- Pages
- 252
- Weight
- 16.16 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.44 x 0.53 in.
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