| Aikenside Contributor(s): J. Holmes, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798674530497 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Gothic |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6" W x 9" (0.6 lbs) 182 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerptfitted for domestic happiness, he looked forward anxiously to the time when sweet Lucy Atherstone, the fair English girl to whom he had become engaged when, four years before, he visited Europe, should be strong enough to bear transplanting to American soil. Twice since his engagement he had visited her, finding her always lovely, gentle, and yielding. Too yielding, it sometimes seemed to him, while occasionally the thought had flashed upon him that she did not possess a very remarkable depth of intellect. But he said to himself, he did not care; he hated strong-minded women, and would far rather his wife should be a little weak than masculine, like his Aunt Margaret, who sometimes wore bloomers, and advocated women's rights. Yes, he greatly preferred Lucy Atherstone, as she was, to a wife like the stately Margaret, or like Agnes, his pretty stepmother, who only thought how she could best attract attention; and as it had never occurred to him that there might be a happy medium, that a woman need not be brainl |