Author: Mary Russell Mitford
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Aunt Deborah by Mary Russell Mitford is about an old lady known throughout her town to be unfriendly and disagreeable, and perhaps to possess very interesting abilities. Excerpt: "A crosser old woman than Mrs. Deborah Thornby was certainly not to be found in the whole village of Hilton. Worth, in a country phrase, a power of money, and living (to borrow another rustic expression) upon her means, the exercise of her extraordinary faculty for grumbling and scolding seemed the sole occupation of her existence, her only pursuit, solace, and amusement; and it would have been a great pity to have deprived the poor woman of a pastime so consolatory to herself, and which did harm to nobody: her family consisting only of an old laborer, to guard the house, take care of her horse, her cow, and her chaise and cart, and work in the garden, who was happily, for his comfort, stone deaf."
Aunt Deborah
Author: Mary Russell Mitford
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Aunt Deborah by Mary Russell Mitford is about an old lady known throughout her town to be unfriendly and disagreeable, and perhaps to possess very interesting abilities. Excerpt: "A crosser old woman than Mrs. Deborah Thornby was certainly not to be found in the whole village of Hilton. Worth, in a country phrase, a power of money, and living (to borrow another rustic expression) upon her means, the exercise of her extraordinary faculty for grumbling and scolding seemed the sole occupation of her existence, her only pursuit, solace, and amusement; and it would have been a great pity to have deprived the poor woman of a pastime so consolatory to herself, and which did harm to nobody: her family consisting only of an old laborer, to guard the house, take care of her horse, her cow, and her chaise and cart, and work in the garden, who was happily, for his comfort, stone deaf."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Aunt Deborah by Mary Russell Mitford is about an old lady known throughout her town to be unfriendly and disagreeable, and perhaps to possess very interesting abilities. Excerpt: "A crosser old woman than Mrs. Deborah Thornby was certainly not to be found in the whole village of Hilton. Worth, in a country phrase, a power of money, and living (to borrow another rustic expression) upon her means, the exercise of her extraordinary faculty for grumbling and scolding seemed the sole occupation of her existence, her only pursuit, solace, and amusement; and it would have been a great pity to have deprived the poor woman of a pastime so consolatory to herself, and which did harm to nobody: her family consisting only of an old laborer, to guard the house, take care of her horse, her cow, and her chaise and cart, and work in the garden, who was happily, for his comfort, stone deaf."
Aunt Deborah
Author: Mercury Press (New Bedford, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aunts
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aunts
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Aunt Deborah
Author: Mary Russell Mitford
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537271439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
repossession by the natural effect of that spirit of contradiction which formed so large an ingredient in her composition, and was not wholly wanting in that of John Stokes. Years passed away, and in spite of frequent ebbs and flows, the tide of Mrs. Deborah's favour continued to set towards Mr. Adolphus Lynfield. Once or twice indeed, report had said that he was fairly discarded, but the very appearance of the good miller, anxious to improve the opportunity for his protege, had been sufficient to determine his cousin to reinstate Mr. Adolphus in her good graces. Whether she really liked him is doubtful. He entertained too good an opinion of himself to be very successful in gaining that of other people. That the gentleman was not deficient in "left-handed wisdom," was proved pretty clearly by most of his actions; for instance, when routed by the downright miller from the position which he had taken up of a near kinsman by the father's side, he, like an able tactician, wheeled about"
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537271439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
repossession by the natural effect of that spirit of contradiction which formed so large an ingredient in her composition, and was not wholly wanting in that of John Stokes. Years passed away, and in spite of frequent ebbs and flows, the tide of Mrs. Deborah's favour continued to set towards Mr. Adolphus Lynfield. Once or twice indeed, report had said that he was fairly discarded, but the very appearance of the good miller, anxious to improve the opportunity for his protege, had been sufficient to determine his cousin to reinstate Mr. Adolphus in her good graces. Whether she really liked him is doubtful. He entertained too good an opinion of himself to be very successful in gaining that of other people. That the gentleman was not deficient in "left-handed wisdom," was proved pretty clearly by most of his actions; for instance, when routed by the downright miller from the position which he had taken up of a near kinsman by the father's side, he, like an able tactician, wheeled about"
The Living Age
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
All the Year Round
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Miss Deborah's Pocketbook
Author: Alice Callender Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
Author: Mary Ellen Chase
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Author:
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
Aunt Claire's Yellow Beehive Hair
Author: Deborah Blumenthal
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781589804913
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A girl, seeking her connection to family past and present, creates a special book in tribute and remembrance, leaving blank pages for future memories.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781589804913
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A girl, seeking her connection to family past and present, creates a special book in tribute and remembrance, leaving blank pages for future memories.