Excerpts from the Book 'The Young Step Mother Or A Chronicle Of Mistakes':

... to her cheeks, and, with a hurried gesture, she murmured, 'Please don't, papa.' Albinia saw that feelings were here concerned which must not be played ...
... at a time, and likewise to see as much as he could of them in private. 'Oh! mamma!' exclaimed Lucy, returning from her first class, 'Mr. Dusautoy has ...
... and when the notion was broached of boarding Mrs. Meadows with some family in the place, the conviction arose, that when she had grandchildren, there ...
... you are!' and Lucy joined them as they emerged on the bowling-green, where stood the two bright targets, and the groups of archers, whose shafts, for ...
... don't like to believe it, but it is my great comfort. Think how she would suffer if she did love him! Nay, think, before you are angry with me for not ...
... to the surface, 'but how is Winifred?' 'As well as could be hoped under the affliction of not being able to come and keep you in order.' 'She ...
... but I could forgive him anything but using my mother's eyes that way!' 'You will yet rejoice in the likeness,' said Mr. Kendal. 'You must ...
... are very young, and it cannot be too late for winning a character, and redeeming the time!' 'And you tell me I may love her!' repeated Gilbert, ...
... whether all the O'Mores put together have ever made such a conquest as he has.' 'It was fun to see how the aunts were dismayed to find one of ...
... was Tritton who took Maurice away to the stables.' 'I hear, but I do not see the compulsion, only the extraordinary weakness that leads you everywhere ...
... the case, it was impossible to ask her brother and little Mary, whose well-sounding names she knew Algernon ambitionated for the benefit of the county ...
... consented. She could not bear not to meet her letters at once or suppose Edmund and Gilbert should return to an empty, unaired house, and she thought ...
... did not enter into the fact enough to ask for particulars. After a short space Sophy recovered herself enough to take out the letter, and read it over ...
... Albinia timidly pressed his hand, 'Work was always what I wished,' she said, 'if only I could do anything to lighten your grief and care.' ...
... Kendal, 'that Mr. Goldsmith has left your position exactly the same?' 'I've no reason to think otherwise. I refused all connexion with the bank if it ...
... started. Then she began to mount the stairs, and meeting Albinia, said quietly, 'I was going to take this to Genevieve's room, it is empty now, but ...
... 'Poor Edmund's watch,' said Lucy. 'It was given to him for a reward just before he was ill.' Albinia tried to recover composure by reading the titles ...
... led by one soul of truth and generosity. What this poor fellow was separately no one could know, while he had his brother to guide and shield him. The ...
... not half-hearted faithless ones, that He may work out your will in them.' 'Oh, Maurice, how did you know? But you are not going? I have ...
... there had been hardness and cruelty in hesitating to summon her. Without knowing that a shawl was thrown round her, or seeing Mr. Dusautoy's offered ...