Bread Upon the Waters, by the Author of 'Olive' (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... though the proud boys were rather shocked that he should see our humble board. And all that evening, with the June sun slanting in upon his face, --in which the former boyish likeness gleamed strangely at times, though he is much changed by the thick moustache and beard he wears, foreign fashion, --Sir Godfrey Eedwood sat talking, sometimes gaily, sometimes thoughtfully, with "Miss Lyne the governess, ' and her brothers. I saw in the first ten minutes, that despite his kind courtesy about knowing my face, he, too, was struck by the change which I so clearly perceive in myself; and that if the old "Felicia" had not been long swept out from what could have been at best a mere boyish memory, the sight of "Miss Lyne" had now made it, and all 58' BBE AD UPON THE WATEBS. belonging to it, irrevocably the past. It was well for me that I had discernment and strength of mind enough at once to assure myself of this, so that our future intercourse may be, as indeed it is, perfectly free and unembarrassed on either side. Sir Godfrey told us much of what had happened to himself since the days when he used to visit at the Square. It was the ordinary life of a young man of fortune, filled up with many extravagances and follies, all of which he owned so freely, that one could plainly discern--even if his whole countenance, bearing, and the accidental nothings by which we judge of character, had not confirmed the fact--that there had been in him no vice; that the son of his proud and virtuous mother was, as I had long learnt from other sources, the stay and glory of the Bedwood house. His "wild oats," he said, had been sown early, abroad and at home, and he was now in the midst of manhood's grave and earnest career, --the career of one who deeply felt, that as...