Azalea's Silver Web - Softcover
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. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ..."But really, Azalea, I wish you woiuld keep perfectly silenlt'.x This young man oes not write to you. re you doing what is dignified?" "Aunt Lorena," I said, shaking my finger at her, "my own private opinion is that he is writing to me every night of his life, and filing the letters away for future reference." Aunt Lorena lifted her eyebrows very, very high. I smiled. "What are you laughing at, Azalea?" she asked sharply. "At your Gothic eyebrows, dearest Auntie," I said. Then I kissedher. " Don't ask me to be too dignified," I begged. " I'm only Azalea." "Azalea Knox is a very pleasing and interesting young woman of a good deal of importance in the world, if she would only realize it," she said. I looked at her a moment. " She's not so very, very happy," I said. The tears came in her eyes, and her eyebrows were not pointed at all. Really, Aunt Lorena is a dear. You just have to break through her crust. The only trouble is that the crust grows over, and you have to keep breaking through. It makes you feel a little like an Eskimo, fishing. "I am truly sorry," she said. "But I think if she is a really obedient and patient girl that some day she will be very happy, and that she will thank the friends who now seem to her to be afllicting her." We didn't say anything for a few minutes. Then I ventured: "Then you really think I ought not to send anything to Keefe? Not even this terrible drawing of a cat? Not even to make him laugh and--and hold me in contempt?" She laughed at that. "Not for any reason at all," she said. "Then, Aunt Lorena, let me send word...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1153444399
- ISBN 13 9781153444392
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages72
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