Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik]@TWC D-Link book Gentleman 9/29 Is she well? Happily, few sorrows, few feelings of any kind, take lasting hold at eighteen. She did her duty, and it was no light one, to him who is gone; now her life begins anew. It is sure to be prosperous--I trust it may be very happy .-- Now I must bid you both good-bye." She stopped at the gates of the Mythe House; great iron gates, a barrier as proud and impassable as that which in these times the rich shut against the poor, the aristocrat against the plebeian. |