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. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...he should feel himself once more fully master of his own emotions. Then he opened the book, and this was what he found: " My DEAR AND ONLY DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH, --Save thy brother, thou art the last of a race which has known so much more of sorrow than of joy that I beg of thee solemnly to consider what I have ...
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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. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...he should feel himself once more fully master of his own emotions. Then he opened the book, and this was what he found: " My DEAR AND ONLY DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH, --Save thy brother, thou art the last of a race which has known so much more of sorrow than of joy that I beg of thee solemnly to consider what I have here written, that if it seem good to thee thou mayest come to see the matter as I see it, and to fulfil my wish, so that by never marrying our family misery may fall upon no others, and may end with us. Henry Howard. " March 10, 1777." Then came a number of entries: " Richard Howard, of the Larches, Denbighshire, died Sept. 3, 1699, by his own hand. " Of his brothers, John and Nicholas likewise thus perished. " Margaret Wortley, set. 30, daughter of Rd. Howard, died insane. " The grandsons of Rd. Howard were thy uncles; and of them none are left, they dying mostly of self-murder in like manner, but happily in foreign parts, so that the way of it is not known at home. " And now are left only thou and thy brother, who, thinking on this matter with me, will die without issue. " And so may we all find peace!" Arthur Guinness let his pipe fall on the floor, and turning to the table sat motionless, his chin on his hands, staring, as it were, with sad eyes into the future. He saw dim, changeful pictures of prosperous days to come, of a happy wife, of sons and daughters about his knees. Then he saw them grown up, and shuddering rose and walked to and fro in the room, until at last, feeling some fierce craving for larger movement, he took his hat and leaving the house strode hurriedly away towards the Schuylkill. To the day of his death he never forgot those hours of dumb agony. But long before night fell the strong habits of duty and faithful...
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8vo. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering. ix, 311pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 2 full-page plates. Very good. Mild edgewear and rubbing; faint dampstaining to frontispiece (only). Tight, nice copy of the "Author's Centennial Edition, " consisting of this tale, "The Case of George Dedlow, " "Hephzibah Guinness, " Thee and You" and "A Draft on the Bank of Spain."
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