The Sea and the Moor; Or, Homewardbound (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. 1877 Excerpt: ...companion in the account of his little cousin's illness, but he felt certain that she understood the case thoroughly. The few symptoms touched upon in Mrs. Vernon's hurried letter, had been at once set down by Mrs. Chichester as less alarming than the timid writer conceived them to be. Children born in India were always delicate. Her own child, she said, had suffered in the same manner, frequently much more severely, before he was taken from her. After a pause of a few moments she added, in an altered voice: "Hugh Desborough is more than commonly sensitive to changes of season. For a child of his constitution the great heat of the summer, unaccompanied by Eastern modes of cooling the temperature, was more overpowering in England than in the Bungalows among the hills. He ought not to have been kept in those close shrubberies, but taken to the sea-side." Mrs. Vernon manifested great pleasure on receiving her unexpected guest, and at once admitted her to a sight of the little ailing boy. Eooms were prepared, as a matter of course, for the lady and for Mr. Desborough; and nothing whatever was said of Mrs. Chichester's taking up her abode with the friends in or near Newmarket, whom she had on other occasions professed herself anxious to visit. It almost seemed as if the young, energetic woman was suddenly installed as mistress of Sir John Desborough's mansion. Alan felt himself to be only a visitor; but, in this house of sickness and anxiety, Mrs. Chichester seemed more at home than in the sunny abode in the orchard. Her quiet yet firm manner made all obey her; and she carried out such measures as she thought advisable for the treatment of the invalid, some of them quite contrary to English customs and prejudices, without difficulty or contradiction. T...

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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. 1877 Excerpt: ...companion in the account of his little cousin's illness, but he felt certain that she understood the case thoroughly. The few symptoms touched upon in Mrs. Vernon's hurried letter, had been at once set down by Mrs. Chichester as less alarming than the timid writer conceived them to be. Children born in India were always delicate. Her own child, she said, had suffered in the same manner, frequently much more severely, before he was taken from her. After a pause of a few moments she added, in an altered voice: "Hugh Desborough is more than commonly sensitive to changes of season. For a child of his constitution the great heat of the summer, unaccompanied by Eastern modes of cooling the temperature, was more overpowering in England than in the Bungalows among the hills. He ought not to have been kept in those close shrubberies, but taken to the sea-side." Mrs. Vernon manifested great pleasure on receiving her unexpected guest, and at once admitted her to a sight of the little ailing boy. Eooms were prepared, as a matter of course, for the lady and for Mr. Desborough; and nothing whatever was said of Mrs. Chichester's taking up her abode with the friends in or near Newmarket, whom she had on other occasions professed herself anxious to visit. It almost seemed as if the young, energetic woman was suddenly installed as mistress of Sir John Desborough's mansion. Alan felt himself to be only a visitor; but, in this house of sickness and anxiety, Mrs. Chichester seemed more at home than in the sunny abode in the orchard. Her quiet yet firm manner made all obey her; and she carried out such measures as she thought advisable for the treatment of the invalid, some of them quite contrary to English customs and prejudices, without difficulty or contradiction. T...

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United States

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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64

ISBN-13

978-1-150-30373-9

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9781150303739

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1-150-30373-5



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