Debatable Ground (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. 1921 Excerpt: ...man at the psychological moment of trying to be good. You're too accommodating altogether, my child. Suppose it were a bad man, and the clock struck while you were pulling that face?" Deb went to the mirror, and tried on the two faces, one after another. "Which becomes me best?" she demanded anxiously, " Puritan or rogue? Oh, Antonia, it was such fun busting the Phillips' illusion. I shall never have such fun again." n Samson was sent to the Front shortly afterwards. And Beatrice confided in her mother-in-law, Trudchen Redbury, her amazement that any girl could so far lose her reason as thrice to refuse a match like Samson Phillips: "She must have said something to upset him badly, that last time--but he won't say what; he seemed heart-broken, poor fellow... and going off like that, too, without any hope. How could she?" Trudchen also wondered how Deb possibly could... and discussed the matter with Otto, who was thus at last brought face to face with the failure of his cherished notion of a marriage between his little daughter Nell, and an officer in the British army: "He vanted Ferdinand's Teporah? Ach wass but I thought she and that yong Gennedy "He remembered how the insolent pair had "called" on the Redburys one Sunday afternoon, for all the world as though they were engaged. And then had followed Cliffe's confidence in the train... the name left chivalrously blank... and not feeling at all friendly towards Deb, who had robbed him of an English son-in-law, Otto, by sudden malignant inspiration, inserted her name into the blank, and was instantly convinced of the correctness of his guess: "So and zat vos vy she refused VilHps " Otto sucked at his lips, very gravely... genuinely shocked an...