Harry Joscelyn: Volume 1
- / Home
- / Fiction Books /
Author: Mrs. Oliphant
Downloads: 16
Visits: 2
Pages: 211
Published: 3 years agoRating: Rated: 0 times Rate It
- 1 star
- 2 stars
- 3 stars
- 4 stars
- 5 stars
Add to LibraryBook Description HTML
“MOTHER, I wish you would not make such a fuss. It is only Harry quarrelling with father; I am sure you ought to be used to that by this time. It is just as sure to happen when they get together as that night will come after day.” “I never can be used to it if I should live a hundred years,” said the mother thus addressed. She was walking up and down a long low room, wringing her hands as she walked, her brow contracted with anxiety and alarm. Her daughter sat tranquilly knitting, following her with eyes full of calm disapproval as her figure crossed the glow of the firelight, and went and came into the gloom on either side. The occasional sound of their low voices, the faint rustle of the elder woman’s movements, the crackle of the fire burning brightly, with now and then a small explosion and sudden blaze, were all the sounds that broke the quiet here; and this made all the more apparent a growl of deep-voiced talk in an...
