It Never Can Happen Again - Softcover

De Morgan, William Frend; Morgan, William Frend De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1152348213 ISBN 13: 9781152348219

Publisher: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

Synopsis

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. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...room and write all day if he liked. He had brought his MS. of "Estrild" with him, and had made up his mind to complete it. The play would have its value, even if the Estrild he had set his heart on, and had written the part for, decided on not attempting it. For a doubt had crept into the scheme as it stood when Challis paid that visit to the sprained-ankle patient in Grosvenor Square. Something had influenced Judith since then; probably, some passage of arms with her family. At least, so Challis surmised. But she had told him next to nothing, so far. Her passing lameness had occasioned a break in tentative readings of the play, in which others than herself had taken part; and during this inter-, ruption it had been evident that the young lady's ambition to fly in the face of Society and family tradition had undergone a change. But the invitation to Royd at Whitsuntide remained in black and white, and could not be gainsaid. Therefore, Challis had found himself on that well-remembered i lawn, as recorded in our last chapter, at the time appointed, with no misgiving on him at the moment as to the cordiality of his welcome. Nothing had happened to create one. But as the hours grew to a day, and then to days, he began to be conscious somehow that his hosts had towards him a feeling they were too well-bred to show; and not only that, but that an indefinable discomfort had arisen between himself and Judith. Something had flawed the relation that each called friendship, and refrained from speculating about any other designation for. He had recognized this consciousness for the first time at that moment beside the carriage. And the reason he so readily accepted her ladyship's permission to indulge his inspirations ad libitum in his own...

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About the Author:

Bill Morgan is the current president of the Bennington Historical Society. He is also a member of the Pownal Historical Society and the Vermont Historical Society. He worked and consulted on archives of various writers, as well as the archives of the Hanuman Press and Audrey Cohen College.

About this edition

• Publisher: RareBooksClub.com
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1152348213
• ISBN 13: 9781152348219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286