Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 1851-1920 / 2008-09-17 00:00:00

EBOOK ELEANOR ***


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ELEANOR
BY
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALBERT STERNER_
1900

TO ITALY THE BELOVED AND BEAUTIFUL,
INSTRUCTRESS OF OUR PAST,
DELIGHT OF OUR PRESENT,
COMRADE OF OUR FUTURE:--
THE HEART OF AN ENGLISHWOMAN
OFFERS THIS BOOK.


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ELEANOR
THE VILLA
LUCY FOSTER
THE BEAUTIFYING OF LUCY
THE LOGGIA
FATHER BENECKE


PART I.

'I would that you were all to me,
You that are just so much, no more.
Nor yours nor mine, nor slave nor free!
Where does the fault lie? What the core
O' the wound, since wound must be?'


CHAPTER I

'Let us be quite clear, Aunt Pattie--when does this young woman arrive?'
'In about half an hour. But really, Edward, you need take no trouble! she
is coming to visit me, and I will see that she doesn't get in your way.
Neither you nor Eleanor need trouble your heads about her.'
Miss Manisty--a small elderly lady in a cap--looked at her nephew with
a mild and deprecating air. The slight tremor of the hands, which were
crossed over the knitting on her lap, betrayed a certain nervousness; but
for all that she had the air of managing a familiar difficulty in familiar
ways.
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