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A Douce Lass (Volume 2 )

A Douce Lass (Volume 2 )

Tytler, Sarah

Paperback

General World History

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ISBN10: 1235631702
ISBN13: 9781235631702
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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: ... tion and intensity of a nature, which held a fascination for Charlotte as it had held one for her father before her. She spoke at 'Charlotte, and fired whole batteries of masked.guns at the girl's position, with an unvarying regularity and precision which must eventually have beaten down the stoutest defences, were it only by pounding them away stone after stone. She advanced against her enemy and daughter by deliberate attack and by sudden assault; she wrested from the foe the opposite ranges; she sapped the breastworks. All the time she never allowed Charlotte a single opportunity of firing back with the pattering hail of a vehement protest or the dead shot of a direct refusal. Mrs. Wedderburn was far too spirited and shrewd an antagonist not to succeed in avoiding close quarters, even with her own daughter; if the mother wished it, she was fit to parry an importunate cry of 'question? question?' though it had been uttered by a louder, shriller, less shy, hurt voice than Charlotte's. What a martial array of argument Mrs. Wedderburn could lead forth against her daughter! The text of one sermon was supplied by the precocious self-conceit, indelicacy, and false sentiment of girls who could be guilty of juvenile flirtations, and of clinging to these forward and maudlin performances. This theme was discoursed upon until Charlotte's modesty and humility became renegades, and, abandoning her own standard, ranked themselves under that of her mother. Mrs. Wedderburn did not wilfully deceive Charlotte when she so beguiled the girl's forces to desert her. Mrs. Wedderburn had the advantage of believing what she expressed with the strength of conviction. She was persuaded girlish attachments are often delusions. Tommy Spens' admiration might be that poor passing inc...

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