Download or read book The Old Maids Club written by Israel Zangwill and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lillie was a born heroine, being young and beautiful from her birth. In her fourth year she conceived a Platonic affection for the boy who brought the telegrams. His manners had such repose. This was followed by a hopeless passion for a French cavalry officer with spurs. Every one feared she would grow up to be a suicide or a poetess; for her earliest nursery rhyme was an impromptu distich discovered by the nursery-maid, running...FROM THE BOOKS.