The Mistakes of a Life
by Catherine Anne Hubback (9781458890962)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. P. Hex. This life of ours is a wild eeolian harp of many a joyous strain, But under them all there runs a loud perpetual wail of souls in pain. Elsie. All through life there are wayside inns, where man may refresh his soul with love; Even the lowest may quench his thirst at rivulets fed by springs from above. Golden Legend. It is one of Miss Jane Taylor's acute observations, that "it is easier to be distracted for a week, than to be sorrowful for life;" and I was certainly an instance of this. Although the next morning I was too languid and weak to come down stairs, I was considerably quieter than I had been for many days; and towards the evening, Lady Suffield persuadedme to leave my room, and try the effect of fresh air on the lawn. I thought the gentleman looked a little afraid of coming near me. I daresay he did not wish for a renewal of yesterday's scene; his mother, however, began speaking of his tour, and as I seemed interested in her account, she called him up to give some further particulars himself. Mr. Suffield presently sat down on the lawn at our feet, for we were resting on a bench beneath a huge spreading elm, whose boughs swept the ground around us, and here we remained in the calm quiet of a lovely evening, conversing on various subjects, until the twilight deepened into gloom, and that again was dispersed by the silver rays of a full harvest moon. There was neither chill nor damp in the air to drive us in, and I have no doubt my friend thought, and thought rightly too, that it was altogether as good a tonic as I could have. St. John made himself extremely agreeable. I do not think that is precisely theright way to express it either, for there was no effort on his part, no attempt at effect or display; he was as simple and...

USD $19.99

   Dispatch: Immediate - In Stock