The Ebony Frame eBook Edith Nesbit
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an excerpt from the beginning To be rich is a luxurious sensation, the more so when you have plumbed the depths of hard-up-ness as a Fleet Street hack, a picker-up of unconsidered pars, a reporter, an unappreciated journalist; all callings utterly inconsistent with one's family feeling and one's direct descent from the Dukes of Picardy.?xmlnamespace prefix = o ns = "urnschemas-microsoft-comofficeoffice" / When my Aunt Dorcas died and left me seven hundred a year and a furnished house in ?xmlnamespace prefix = st1 ns = "urnschemas-microsoft-comofficesmarttags" /Chelsea, I felt that life had nothing left to offer except immediate possession of the legacy. Even Mildred Mayhew, whom I had hitherto regarded as my life's light, became less luminous. I was not engaged to Mildred, but I lodged with her mother, and I sang duets with Mildred and gave her gloves when it would run to it, which was seldom. She was a dear, good girl, and I meant to marry her some day. It is very nice to feel that a good little woman is thinking of you -- it helps you in your work -- and it is pleasant to know she will say "Yes," when you say, "Will you?" But my legacy almost put Mildred out of my head, especially as she was staying with friends in the country. Before the gloss was off my new mourning, I was seated in my aunt's armchair in front of the fire in the drawing-room of my own house. My own house! It was grand, but rather lonely. I did think of Mildred just then. The room was comfortably furnished with rosewood and damask. On the walls hung a few fairly good oil paintings, but the space above the mantelpiece was disfigured by an exceedingly bad print, "The Trial of Lord William Russell," framed in a dark frame. I got up to look at it. I had visited my aunt with dutiful regularity, but I never remembered seeing this frame before. It was not intended for a print, but for an oil-painting. It was of fine ebony, beautifully and curiously carved. I looked at it with growing interest, and when my aunt's housemaid -- I had retained her modest staff of servants -- came in with the lamp, I asked her how long the print had been there. "Mistress only bought it two. days before she was took ill," she said; "but the frame -- she didn't want to buy a new one -- so she got this out of the attic. There's lots of curious old things there, sir."
The Ebony Frame eBook Edith Nesbit
I enjoyed t story content, but the writing it self was poor, in my opinion. Seems the author relied on spell check, instead of her own knowledge. Perhaps this was a rough draft.Product details
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The Ebony Frame eBook Edith Nesbit Reviews
This is a short story by a masterful story teller. Not happy or humorous but worth reading. I don't care much for the short story genre but I'm glad I read this one.
I enjoyed t story content, but the writing it self was poor, in my opinion. Seems the author relied on spell check, instead of her own knowledge. Perhaps this was a rough draft.
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