ZAIDEE
- Editore:
FB&C LTD
- EAN:
9780259245735
- ISBN:
0259245739
- Pagine:
- 184
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Libro ZAIDEE di Margaret Oliphant
Trama libro
Excerpt from Zaidee: A Romance From Blackwood's MagazineThe guardian whom Squire Percy had'associ ated with their mother in the charge of the fam ily interests, was an old friend of the house, an invalided Indian officer, rich and of good repute. Colonel Morton had a son only a few ears older than Elizabeth Vivian, no great mate 1, as every body said, but a very suitable one. Bernard was clever, while Elizabeth was not, but for the rest, all the advantage was on the lady's side; and Elizabeth's home admirers could not compre hend what she, so beautiful as they all thought her, could find attractive in the very plain, dark man, mustached and sun-browned, whom their guardian presented to them, after many years' absence, as my son, and all the retainers of the Morton family proudly hailed as Captain Bernard. True, he turned out a very agreeable man - well read, well bred, well informed. At first sight, these did not seem the qualities to se cure the heart of Elizabeth - yet, whatever his means of wooing were, a successful wooer Cap tain Bernard Morton proved to be.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
