A Sage Of

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and explosions, and estrangements, as in other houses. Sir Thomas would come and go at his own hours, have his own appointments, and fulfil his own engagements. Lady Alfreton lunched, and drove, and dressed, and rested herself, and went out evening after evening, as she herself chose. Piers appeared and...
More Description

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and explosions, and estrangements, as in other houses. Sir Thomas would come and go at his own hours, have his own appointments, and fulfil his own engagements. Lady Alfreton lunched, and drove, and dressed, and rested herself, and went out evening after evening, as she herself chose. Piers appeared and disappeared at intervals?no one knowing whence he came nor whither he went. Juliet had her own friends, and her own hours; and though now and again there would be an amalgamation of the forces, mother and daughter joining together, as it were, for the nonce, father and son even occasionally walking off in company, or dining with each other at their several clubs, the unison was spasmodic, the independence normal. I really think we have only one thing in common, exclaimed Juliet one day, we get along together very well; we are what is called ' a united family;' we never quarrel, we never worry each other, nor meddle with each other ?especially since I have got mamma to understand once for all that I am to be let alone as Piers is; we are always glad to see each otherat meals, and I drive with mamma two or three times a week in the season; but I do really think there is only one thing that we all have the same sort of feeling about. Such a funny thing, too. Who would ever have thought, when we first saw her, that any of us would have grown to care two straws about that queer little creature Elma ? chapter{{Section 4 CHAPTER IV. ELMA'S NEW FROCK. OME idea of the persons who formed Elma Alfretoii's little world, betwixt the two hemispheres of which she hovered, having now been presented to our readers, let us proceed with our little history. It was a warm, shining, quivering June day, when all London, all rich, glossy, gorgeous West End London, was in bloom, ab...