| Adam Johnstone's Son Contributor(s): Marion Crawford, F. (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798674299004 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6" W x 9" (0.67 lbs) 204 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerptere to affect the direction of their own quietly moving existence.Seeing that her daughter did not say anything in answer to the remark about the past being written in a foreign language, Mrs. Bowring looked at the distant sky-haze thoughtfully for a few moments, then opened her book again where her thin forefinger had kept the place, and began to read. There was no disappointment in her face at not being understood, for she had spoken almost to herself and had expected no reply. No change of expression softened or accentuated the quiet hardness which overspread her naturally gentle face. But the thought was evidently still present in her mind, for her attention did not fix itself upon her book, and presently she looked at her daughter, as the latter bent her head over the little bag she was making.The young girl felt her mother's eyes upon her, looked up herself, and smiled faintly, almost mechanically, as before. It was a sort of habit they both had--a way of acknowledging one another's pres |