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- Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 054854235X
- ISBN-13: 9780548542354
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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General Books publication date: 2009
Original publication date: 1888
Original Publisher: T. B. Peterson Subjects: Fiction / Romance / General
Fiction / Romance / Adult
Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
Fiction / Romance / Historical
History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.
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Excerpt: CHAPTER III. SYBIL BERNE R S. " All that'B li.'st of dark and bright Meet In her aspect and her eye." Sybil Berners was at this time about eighteen years of age -- a beautiful, black-haired, bright-eyed little brunette, full of fire, spirit, strength, and self-will. She was a law to herself. No one, not even her aged father, had the slightest control over her except through her affections, when they could be gained, or her passions, when they could be aroused; but this last means was seldom tried, for no one cared to raise the storm that none could quell. Her father was now nearly eighty years old. And fondly, jealously, selfishly as he loved this darling daughter of his age, he wished to see her safely married before he should be called from the earth. And certainly the beautiful heiress had suitors enough to select from -- suitors drawn no less by her personal charms than by her great fortune. But one and all were politely refused by the fastidious maiden, who every one said was so very hard to please. But even if Sybil Berners had accepted any one among the numerous suitors for her hand, the conditions of her father's consent would have been made rather difficult. The husband of the heiress would have been required to assume the name and arms of Berners in order to perpetuate the family patronymic, and to live with his wife at the old manor house in order not to separate the only child from her aged father. A...
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- Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 054854235X
- ISBN-13: 9780548542354
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
General Books publication date: 2009
Original publication date: 1888
Original Publisher: T. B. Peterson Subjects: Fiction / Romance / General
Fiction / Romance / Adult
Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
Fiction / Romance / Historical
History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.
When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.
Excerpt: CHAPTER III. SYBIL BERNE R S. " All that'B li.'st of dark and bright Meet In her aspect and her eye." Sybil Berners was at this time about eighteen years of age -- a beautiful, black-haired, bright-eyed little brunette, full of fire, spirit, strength, and self-will. She was a law to herself. No one, not even her aged father, had the slightest control over her except through her affections, when they could be gained, or her passions, when they could be aroused; but this last means was seldom tried, for no one cared to raise the storm that none could quell. Her father was now nearly eighty years old. And fondly, jealously, selfishly as he loved this darling daughter of his age, he wished to see her safely married before he should be called from the earth. And certainly the beautiful heiress had suitors enough to select from -- suitors drawn no less by her personal charms than by her great fortune. But one and all were politely refused by the fastidious maiden, who every one said was so very hard to please. But even if Sybil Berners had accepted any one among the numerous suitors for her hand, the conditions of her father's consent would have been made rather difficult. The husband of the heiress would have been required to assume the name and arms of Berners in order to perpetuate the family patronymic, and to live with his wife at the old manor house in order not to separate the only child from her aged father. A...
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