A Modern Instance; A Novel Volume 2 - Softcover

Howells, William Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1230427279 ISBN 13: 9781230427270

Verlag: TheClassics.us, 2013

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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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... A MODERN INSTANCE. Bartley came home elate from Miss Kingsbury's entertainment It was something like the social success which he used to picture to himself. He had been flattered by the attention specially paid him, and he did not detect the imposition. He was half-starved, but he meant to have up some cold meat and bottled beer, and talk it all over with Marcia. She did not seem inclined to talk it over on their way home, and when they entered their own door she pushed in and ran up-stairs. "Why, where are you going, Marcia?" he called after her. "To bed!" she replied, closing the door after her with a crash of unmistakeable significance. Bartley stood a moment in the fury that tempted him to pursue her with a taunt, and then leave her to work herself out of the transport of senseless jealousy she had wrought herself into. But he set his teeth, and, full of inward cursing, he followed her up-stairs with a slow, dogged step. He took her in his arms without a word, and held her fast, while his anger changed to pity, and then to laughing. When it came to that, she put up her arms, which she had kept rigidly at her side, and laid them round his neck, and began softly to cry on his breast "Oh, I'm not myself at all, any more!" she moaned penitently. "Then this is very improper--for me," said Bartley. The helpless laughter broke through her lamentation, but she cried a little more to keep herself in countenance. "But I guess, from a previous acquaintance with the party's character, that it's really all you, Marcia. I don't blame you. Miss Kingsbury's hospitality has left me as hollow as if I'd had nothing to eat for a week; and I know you're perishing from inanition. Hence these tears." It delighted her to have him make fun of Miss...

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• Verlag: TheClassics.us
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1230427279
• ISBN 13: 9781230427270
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72