Julia Ried (Grace Livingston Hill library) - Softcover

Alden, Isabella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0842331824 ISBN 13: 9780842331821

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, 1995

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1872. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH I AM STUNG WITH THE TRUTH. >S my hand rested on the knob of the door, I still had in mind the image of Mr. Sayles as he lay floundering about on the ice, but it vanished the moment my eyes glanced on the pale, troubled, cultured face that turned quickly to meet me. "Oh, Miss Ried!" he said, eagerly. "God bless you for this. You have done for me--I can not tell you what." He came toward me quickly, and grasped my hand, as he continued speaking in an eager, excited tone: "I have suffered--no mortal knows how much--since yesterday evening, when I watched in vain for a line from you. The pain grew insupportable to-day, and I felt compelled to throw myself on Mrs. Tyndall's mercy. Yet, do you know, I only half trusted your goodness, after all? When I told Mrs. Tyndall to tell you, from me, that, unless you came to me willing to forgive and forget, I could not endure to meet you at all--and to refuse to see me if you could not do this---I was sorry the moment the door closed after her; and in the intervening time I have undergone tortures, lest you should decline to see me at all." He need not have feared. I had received no such message. I tried to tell him so; but he was in such eager haste to talk, to explain, to palliate,- that there seemed no chance for me. Well, I need not go over in detail the conversation that we had during the next half hour. Indeed, it is not clear to me. It took me at a disadvantage from the first, since my very coming was the sign of peace between us. I remember, I felt annoyed and bewildered at first; but as he talked, mingling graceful touches of thanks among his earnest words, I gradually grew to feeling as if some way--by somebody-- he had been cruelly abused during the past few days. All my indignation...

Edition details

• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0842331824
• ISBN 13: 9780842331821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260