The next-door neighbours, by the author of 'Temptation'.
Author : Caroline Leigh Gascoigne
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Author : Caroline Leigh Gascoigne
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Author : Caroline Leigh Gascoigne
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Release : 2012-02
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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: CHAPTER III. K. Richard?How now what means death in this rude assault ? Villain King Richard IT. Now I do hope to have a little peace, said Mrs. Thompson to her daughter, Letitia, whom she found sitting by the large fire in the south front drawing-room, deeply immersed in a French novel;?give me the newspaper, there's a dear, and help me to push this armchair nearer the fire. I declare I'm just at my wit's end, with what I've gone through this day?fairly worn out. I can't think why you stay here, Mamma, for my part, observed Letitia, peevishly; I'm sure Anne Jane, and I are half dead with it already. Day after day?day after day? the same thing, and no hope of a change. I wish you would go to Brighton. Brighton why Brighton ? I declare there's no satisfying any of you girls. Honoria is at Brighton, and wants to be here, and you are here, and want to be at Brighton As if you did not know what my object is in staying in this dreadful place?I don't do it to please myself, I suppose My life is not worth having with that old man I'm a perfect slave?and what do I do it for, I should like to know, but for your sakes ? you think nothing of it now, but some day you'll thank your poor mother But surely you have done enough, Mamma ?you have established your influence sufficiently. If we were to go away now, he would very soon follow us. He cannot do without Us ?me, you mean; for you leave all the odious and wearisome part of it to me . . . But I'm not at all sure of that. There's Marie. The influence of that girl is such, that I should never be surprised at her getting him completely into her power. Think what a thing it is to be away from her?to be free ... . If you please, Ma'am, '1 said a tall footman, entering, my master's love, and...
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