Description: Francis Elliot and Dolores, her daughter, came back to Claridge's Hotel at five o'clock very tired, very hot, a little hungry, and a good deal discouraged. It was their third day of country house hunting. With country houses, dozens of country houses, whirling through their brains, they sat down in a corner of the big hall, which was peacefully quiet in its August dullness, and Frances ordered tea. "I'm getting so downhearted about it all, I could cry," said she, leaning back limply as she pulled off her gloves and folded them with mechanical neatness. No matter how tired she was, Frances Eliot was always methodical, always daintily neat. She would somehow have contrived not to look untidy in a high wind, if she had forgotten her veil. To-day she had been " on the go" (as she would have said since half past eight, had changed trains five times, had examined four large houses from attic to cellar, had walked over acres of lawn and garden, had driven in open carriages along dusty roads under a blazing sun; yet her small-featured, ivory-pale face, her brown satin hair, and the brown hat and dress which matched it were as fresh, as spotless, as when she started out in the morning. It was not so with Dolores, though Frances was forty and...(excerpt)
Price: 125.99 USD
Location: Victor, New York
End Time: 2025-02-04T21:01:57.000Z
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: C.N. Williamson
Publisher: A.L. Burt & Co.
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Topic: Novels
Unit Quantity: 346 pages
Subject: Literature & Fiction
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