The Silent House - Fergus Hume - Książki - Independently Published - 9798710752944 - 19 kwietnia 2021
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The Silent House

Fergus Hume

The Silent House

Book Excerpt: ...up his breakfast with her own fair hands, happy for the day if her admired lodger conversed with her for a few moments before reading the morning paper. Then Miss Greeb would retire to her own sitting-room and indulge in day dreams which she well knew would never be realised. The romances she wove herself were even more marvellous than those she read in her favourite penny novelettes; but, unlike the printed tales, her romance never culminated in marriage. Poor brainless, silly, pitiful Miss Greeb; she would have made a good wife and a fond mother, but by some irony of fate she was destined to be neither; and the comedy of her husband-hunting youth was now changing into the lonely tragedy of disappointed spinsterhood. She was one of the world's unknown martyrs, and her fate merits tears rather than laughter. On the morning after his meeting with Berwin, the young barrister sat at breakfast, with Miss Greeb in anxious attendance. Having poured out his tea, and handed him his paper, and ascertained that..

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 19 kwietnia 2021
ISBN13 9798710752944
Wydawcy Independently Published
Strony 218
Wymiary 127 × 203 × 12 mm   ·   217 g
Język English  

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