John Marchmont's Legacy, by the Author of 'Lady Audley's Secret'. (1863) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

John Marchmont's Legacy, by the Author of 'Lady Audley's Secret'. (1863) Book

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. TAKING IT QUIETLY. All the county, or at least all that part of the county within a certain radius of Marchmont Towers, waited very anxiously for Mr. Paul Marchmont to make some move. The horsewhipping business had given quite a pleasant zest, a flavour of excitement, a dash of what it is the fashion nowadays to call " sensation," to the wind-up of the hunting breakfast. Poor Paul's thrashing had been more racy and appetising than the finest olives that ever grew, and his late guests looked forward to a great deal more excitement and "sensation" before the business was done with. Of course Paul Marchmont would do something. He must make a stir ; and the sooner he made it the better. Matters would have to be explained. People expected to know the cause of Edward Arundel's enmity; and ofcourse the new master of the Towers would see the propriety of setting himself right in the eyes of his influential acquaintance, his tenantry, and retainers; especially if he contemplated standing for Swampington at the next general election. This was what people said to each other. The scene at the hunting-breakfast was a most fertile topic of conversation. It was almost as good as a popular murder, and furnished scandalous paragraphs ad infinitum for the provincial papers, most of them beginning, " It is understood?," or " It has been whispered in our hearing that?," or " Rochefoucault has observed that?." Everybody expected that Paul Marchmont would write to the papers, and that Edward Arundel would answer him in the papers; and that a brisk and stirring warfare would be carried on in printer's- ink?at least. But no line written by either of the gentlemen appeared in any one of the county journals; and by slow degrees it dawned upon people that there was no further amusement...Read More

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  • 0217495680
  • 9780217495684
  • Mary Elizab Braddon
  • 15 August 2009
  • Lightning Source UK Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 142
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