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Stories and Sketches for the Young

Stories and Sketches for the Young

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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ISBN10: 1150709030
ISBN13: 9781150709036
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
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. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...busy, --that she was the very life and soul of all that was going on for miles around. Little Emily Proudie was also sixteen, and everybody said she was one of the most perfectly elegant girls that walked the streets of New York. Everybody spoke of the fine style of her dress; and all that she wore, and all she said and did, were considered to be the height of fashion. Nevertheless, this poor Emily was wretchedly unhappy, --was getting every day pale and thin, and her heart beat so fast every time she went up stairs that all the household were frightened about her, and she was frightened herself. She Spcct heiTa i!i crying, she suffered from a depression of spirits that no money couiu buy aTWi--relief from, and her mother and aunts and grandmothers were all alarmed, and called in the doctors far and near, and had solemn consultations, and in fact, according to the family view, the whole course of society seemed to turn on Emily's health. They were willing to found a water-cure, --to hire a doctor on purpose, --to try homoeopathy or hydropathy, or allopathy, or any other pathy that ever was heard of, --if their dear elegant Emily could only be restored. It is her sensitive nature that wears upon her, ' said her mamma. She was never made for this world; she has an exquisiteness of perception which makes her feel even the creases in a rose-leaf. Stuff and folderol, my dear madam, said old Dr. Hardhack, when the mamma had told him this with tears in her eyes. Now Dr. Hardhack was the nineteenth physician that had been called in to dear Emily, and just about this time it was quite the rage in the fashionable world to run after Dr. Hardhack, principally because he was a plain, hard-spoken old man, with manners so very different from the smooth...

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