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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...having gone so far, she was bound to go farther. Jasper and the Colonel were in the breakfast-room. The Colonel shook hands with her, and patted her shoulder with a little more geniality than usual. 'We won, t wait for May, she is ten minutes late already., The Colonel was something of a martinet even at home. ...
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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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...having gone so far, she was bound to go farther. Jasper and the Colonel were in the breakfast-room. The Colonel shook hands with her, and patted her shoulder with a little more geniality than usual. 'We won, t wait for May, she is ten minutes late already., The Colonel was something of a martinet even at home. Sybil smiled obediently, poured out the coffee, and went round to her own place. Pre-occupied, and a little self-absorbed, she had even taken her seat before she noticed a superb bouquet of white flowers on one side of her plate, and a morocco case on the other. Her astonished eyes, half mechanically, went from the flowers to the case. She opened it, and saw inside a dainty necklace of fine gold chains, with here and there a dropping pearl--a delicate and costly trifle. It did not need the Colonel, s card to tell her whom she had to thank for it. But to thank him for it was exactly what Sybil could not do. It was the first birthday present she had ever had--and the Colonel had given it to her. She sat a moment or two in stunned, white silence, and then she rose and hurriedly left the room. ' What, s the matter?, inquired her ladyship, entering at the same moment, radiant and fresh as the morning. 'Tut, tut, tut, said the Colonel, much disturbed; 'has no one ever been kind to the child before?, Her ladyship, s observant eyes noted the details of the breakfast-table. She raised Jasper, s card from the bouquet, and shot a wondering glance at Jasper. She lifted the Colonel, s from its purple satin bed, and surveyed the glittering little circlet with appreciation. Then she raised her eyebrows with some amusement, and took her seat. 'Well, Anthony, I told you before, was her resigned remark, ' Sybil doesn, t do with too much kindness. It, s quite a...
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