| After The Storm Contributor(s): Arthur, T. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798573953564 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.43 lbs) 190 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: ...t trifles is fretting both of you, and bodes evil in the future.""Would you have me assent if he said black was white?" she answered to her father's remonstrance one day, balancing her little head firmly and setting her lips together in a resolute way."It might be wiser to say nothing than to utter dissent, if, in so doing, both were made unhappy," returned her father."And so let him think me a passive fool?" she asked."No; a prudent girl, shaming his unreasonableness by her self-control.""I have read somewhere," said Irene, "that all men are self-willed tyrants--the words do not apply to you, my father, and so there is an exception to the rule." She smiled a tender smile as she looked into the face of a parent who had ever been too indulgent. "But, from my experience with a lover, I can well believe the sentiment based in truth. Hartley must have me think just as he thinks, and do what he wants me to do, or he gets ruffled. Now I don't expect, when I am married, to sin... |
