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Miss Thangue, who had never seen her friend's hand tremble among the teacups before, felt an edge on her mental appetite, stimulating after two monotonous years abroad. It was several minutes, however, before she made any effort to relieve her curiosity, for of all her patron-friends Victoria Gwynne required the most delicate touch. Flora had learned to be audacious without taking a liberty, which, indeed, was one secret of her success; but although she prided herself upon her reading of this enigma, whom even the ancestral dames of Capheaton looked down upon inspectively, she was never quite sure of her ground. She particularly wished to avoid mistakes upon the renewal of an intimacy kept alive by a fitful correspondence during her sojourn on the Continent. Quite apart from self-interest, she liked no one as well, and her curiosity was tempered by a warm sympathy and a genuine interest. It was this capacity for friendship, and her unlimited good-nature, that had saved her, penniless as she was, from the ignominious footing of the social parasite. The daughter of a clergyman in a Yorkshire village, and the playmate in childhood of the little girls of the castle near by, she had realized early in life that although pretty and well-bred, she was not yet sufficiently dowered by either nature or fortune to hope for a brilliant marriage; and she detested poverty. Upon her father's death she must earn her bread, and, reasoning that self-support was merely the marketing of one's essential commodity, and as her plump and indolent body was disinclined to privations of any sort, she elected the rôle of useful friend to fashionable and luxurious women. It was not an exalted niche to fill in life, but at least she had learned to fill it to perfection, and her ambitions were modest. Moreover, a certain integrity of character and girlish enthusiasm had saved her from the more corrosive properties of her anomalous position, and she was not only clever enough to be frankly useful without servility, but she had become so indispensable to certain of her friends, that although still blooming in her early forties, she would no more have deserted them for a mere husband than she would have renounced her comfortable and varied existence for the no less varied uncertainties of matrimony.
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9781530393022 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 25, 2016, cover price $31.99
9781502465092 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 23, 2014, cover price $7.49 | About this edition: Miss Thangue, who had never seen her friend's hand tremble among the teacups before, felt an edge on her mental appetite, stimulating after two monotonous years abroad.
9781434422026 | Gardners Books, October 1, 2011, cover price $28.70
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9781523780860 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 30, 2016, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Gertrude Atherton was a well known American novelist in the early 20th century, and many of her novels depict life in California during the time period.
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9781519599605 | 1 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, November 29, 2015), cover price $19.95
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9781505465549 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 24, 2015, cover price $9.99
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9781505596458 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 28, 2014, cover price $6.75
Product Description: Death and the Woman is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1892. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 â June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author, many of whose novels are based in her home state, California...read more
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9781499551433 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 13, 2014, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Death and the Woman is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1892.
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9781241383633 | Gardners Books, March 25, 2011, cover price $34.00
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9781241194659 | Gardners Books, March 17, 2011, cover price $37.60
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9781110395798 | Bibliolife, May 15, 2009, cover price $30.99 | also contains A Question Of Time
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9781110395774 | Bibliolife, May 15, 2009, cover price $25.75 | also contains A Question Of Time
9780548498057 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 30, 2007, cover price $26.95
Product Description: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type...read more
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9781442913400 | Read How You Want.Com, November 7, 2008, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers.
9781442914100 | Read How You Want.Com, November 7, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers.
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9781848301498 | Echo Library, July 31, 2008, cover price $9.90 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
Product Description: The great author had realized one of the dreams of his ambitious youth, the possession of an ancestral hall in England. It was not so much the good American¿s reverence for ancestors that inspired the longing to consort with the ghosts of an ancient line, as artistic appreciation of the mellowness, the dignity, the aristocratic aloofness of walls that have sheltered, and furniture that has embraced, generations and generations of the dead...read more
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9781406827590 | Ill edition (Echo Library, July 31, 2008), cover price $9.90 | About this edition: The great author had realized one of the dreams of his ambitious youth, the possession of an ancestral hall in England.
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