Harold Begbie
Published: 2015-07-13
Total Pages: 446
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Excerpt from The Priest One wet evening in the late spring of the year 1905, a well-hung, one-horsed brougham was drawn up outside a church in the neighbourhood of Pimlico. Inside this buff-lined and deep-padded carriage, with her hand holding the window strap, and her gaze fixed upon the lighted interior of the church - which, striped by the rain, could be seen through the open door, with its red curtains swinging in the draught - was a handsome woman of fashion approaching her fortieth year. Her hair was of a dark brown; the small eyes - dusk-lidded, and close under clean-pencilled brows, which did not curve but were straight and almost met together - were reddish-brown and darkly lashed; her nose, which was neither thin nor finely chiselled, sloped to a slight upward tiAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.