Anne Judge, Spinster (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.1867 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. SETTLED DOWN. Edmund Delancy, as the reader is aware, had congratulated himself upon the chance of settling down after his first week at Ilpham-on-the-Cliff. The people who had arisen around him, to confuse him with their presence and bewilder him by their eccentricities, were all to vanish away at the week's end, and leave him with nothing on his mind but a vague interest as to their future doings, which would grow less and less with time, he thought, until they faded away for good. Yes, for good. The Judges were nothing to him. He had been thrown amongst an odd pack of people of that name, and been amazed by the self-immolation of one of the family; but the Judges were not his business, and he could not help them in any way, even if they had been disposed to accept his help. Doctor Day was not the man for a friend, and the more he reflected on the man, the less he liked him now; his sister Clara had almost aroused a sentiment in him again, but it was a sentiment which could have never grown to the old passion, and was scarcely up to the level of his pity; and as for Hugh Aynard, why, he was a man of many fancies, and would as easily forget him as he would forget Hugh Aynard, when the trial was off his mind. Delancy had plenty of time to think these people down, and to reason concerning them in the fashion above recorded. But it was a singular fact that he became no more settled in his mind, and that thoughts of his first week at Ilpham would continually cross him, interfere with his musical studies, and accompany him in his rambles. It has been already intimated that he was of a restless disposition; he had confessed as much to George Day when they met again at Ilpham. He was fond of excitement and adventure in his heart, and the moment he bec...