Betty Leicester A Story For Girls

Betty Leicester A Story For Girls

by Sarah Orne Jewett
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Publication Date: 27/11/2011

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TWO persons sat at a small breakfast-table near an open window, high up in Young's Hotel in Boston. It was a pleasant June morning, just after eight o'clock, and they could see the white clouds blowing over; but the gray walls of the Court House were just opposite, so that one cannot say much of their view of the world. The room was pleasanter than most hotel rooms, and the persons at breakfast were a girl of fifteen, named Betty Leicester, and her father. Their friends thought them both good-looking, but it ought to be revealed in this story just what sort of good looks they had, since character makes the expression of people's faces. But this we can say, to begin with: they had eyes very much alike, very kind and frank and pleasant, and they had a good fresh color, as if they spent much time out-of-doors. In fact, they were just off the sea, having come in only two days before on the Catalonia from Liverpool; and the Catalonia, though very comfortable, had made a slower voyage than some steamers do in coming across
ISBN:
9782819906490
9782819906490
Category:
Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-11-2011
Language:
English

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