The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories
Author | : Grant Allen |
Publisher | : Aeterna Classics |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-05-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783963767722 |
ISBN-13 | : 3963767723 |
Rating | : 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories written by Grant Allen and published by Aeterna Classics. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I first met Césarine Vivian in the stalls at the Ambiguities Theatre. I had promised to take Mrs. Latham and Irene to see the French plays which were then being acted by Marie Leroux's celebrated Palais Royal company. I wasn't at the time exactly engaged to poor Irene: it has always been a comfort to me that I wasn't engaged to her, though I knew Irene herself considered it practically equivalent to an understood engagement. We had known one another intimately from childhood upward, for the Lathams were a sort of second cousins of ours, three times removed: and we had always called one another by our Christian names, and been very fond of one another in a simple girlish and boyish fashion as long as we could either of us remember. Still, I maintain, there was no definite understanding between us; and if Mrs. Latham thought I had been paying Irene attentions, she must have known that a young man of two and twenty, with a decent fortune and a nice estate down in Devonshire, was likely to look about him for a while before he thought of settling down and marrying quietly.