Inhaltsangabe
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. 1873. Excerpt: ... latter subject Lettice is oppressed with most terrible misgivings, for she knows that her performance on the piano is by no means to be regarded as brilliant, and that she is somewhat guilty of presumption in stating that she is qualified in that respect. Still it was necessary that she should turn her hand to something. Her old friend Mrs. Bopps had answered this advertisement for her, and strongly urged her to try it. "Ladies who have been out before objected to," said the notice in question. "So, my dear, they can't expect to find you a past mistress on the instrument," urged the friendly landlady; "not but what you play very nicely, I think, and it's no use being diffident in this world." And so it was that Miss Melton (to call her by her proper name), closed with Sir John Collingham's advertisement, and was at this present wending her way through rain and thunder to Churton. Drenched, sad, and desolate was Lettice as the carriage pulled up. Shivering, and with chatteringteeth, she entered the big hall, feeling more forlorn and miserable, perhaps, than she had ever yet felt in the course of her life. But a door is thrown suddenly open, admitting a stream of light into the half illuminated hall, and a tall, elderly man in evening costume comes quickly forward, and taking her hand in his, exclaims, "Welcome to Churton, Miss Melton 1 Good heavens! you are wet through! The accursed fools must have taken an open carriage for you instead of the brougham! Sylla, my love, come here and take care of your friend. She's half drowned, thanks to that idiot Jenkins! I must tell him a bit of my mind at once;" and the Baronet strode off in a paroxysm of wrath, such paroxysms being by no means rare with Sir John, and woefully dreaded by his household. Almost as her fa...
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