Uses and Limitations of Observations, Data, Forecasts and Other Projections in Decision Support for Selected Sectors and Regions

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...who was apparently greatly interested in what he was saying. Some moments had passed before Lily perceived that this interested They call 1-! Love. I. 10 girl was Miss Hilliers, the only daughter of Lord and Lady Graswick. She felt a sudden sinking at heart the moment she became aware of this fact; for she considered herself a very insignificant person indeed by the side of the daughter of the peer who was Lord Lieutenant of the County. She shrank still further in her own estimation when she perceived--as she did without great difficulty--that the frock which Miss Hilliers wore was infinitely more wonderful than the one which she herself was wearing. Then there were diamonds... She felt sorry that she had come to the dance. She had been a fool from the very first. What non-sense was that which had passed between her and Minna--nonsense involving the mention of the name of Oswald Clifford? And in the presence of her father she had not thought it shocking to mention the name of Oswald Clifford. What on earth could have come over her? How had she ever sunk to so low a depth of vulgarity? Was it any wonder that she had blushed when he had spoken those words behind her? She felt more inclined to spend an hour in tears than she had ever felt during all her life. There he sat, looking into the face of the handsome ' girl beside him--a girl who could never under any circumstance, she perceived in a moment, be guilty of so shocking a thought as the one to which Lily had not hesitated to give expression to her friend Minna. She now perceived that Minna had meant to administer to her a gentle rebuke when she had made that reference to Fate; Minna had undoubtedly been shocked. How could she fail to be shocked? Lily asked herself, as she caught...