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Barbara Rebell
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Barbara Rebell
Marie Belloc Lowndes
As Barbara Rebell, still Barbara Rebell, though she had been a wife, a most unhappywife, for six years, stepped from the small dark vestibule into the dimly-lighted hall ofChancton Priory, her foot slipped on the floor; and she would have fallen had not a man'shand, small but curiously bony and fleshless, grasped her right arm, while, at the samemoment, a deep voice from out the darkness exclaimed, "A good omen! So stumbled theConqueror!"The accent in which the odd words were uttered would have told a tale as to thespeaker's hard-bitten nationality to most English-speaking folk: not so to the woman towhom they were addressed. Yet they smote on her ear as though laden with welcome, forthey recalled the voice of a certain Andrew Johnstone, the Scotch Governor of the WestIndian island of Santa Maria, whose brotherly kindness and unobtrusive sympathy hadbeen more comfortable to her, in a moment of great humiliation and distress, than hisEnglish wife's more openly expressed concern and more eagerly offered friendship.
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 18 juni 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798655063785 |
Uitgevers | Independently Published |
Pagina's | 224 |
Afmetingen | 152 × 229 × 13 mm · 335 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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