James Gordon's Wife [By E. Clutton Brock].

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 85 CHAPTER IV. Art is much, but love is more. O Art, my Art, thou'rt much, but love is more ! Art symbolizes Heaven, but Love is God And makes Heaven. Elizabeth Barret Browning. me, my dear !" said Mrs. Bar- ber: " You do ought to be 'appy, indeed ! What a house this is ! I had pictured nothing half so grand ! And all in such style, too ! I only hope it mayn't spoil Jenny for 'ome !" " She will be here too short a time," said Gabrielle, smiling: " ' And there's no place like home, ' after all, you know." " Well ! I trust she'll think so. But now I want to hear all about you, my love.And lor' me ! how sly you've been ! Why, this must have been brewing all the while you were at Eversfield; and yet, as I mentioned to Mr. Barber, never a word did you once 'int on the subject! What's more, I had no guesses: which was mortifying: for, between you and me, I pride myself on being rather sharp in those matters. And Mr. Barber?good gracious me, my dear! how Mr. Barber did laugh at me! Only the day before we heard, 'ad I been saying: ' Mark my words, Mr. Barber: Gabrielle Wynn will never marry. There has she been, six months or more, in the 'ouse with that fascinating Mr. Gordon; and, bless you! if she were a block of marble, he couldn't make less impression! Mark my words, Mr. Barber, ' I said: ' Gabrielle Wynn is not of a marrying sort.' Well! the very next morning, came your letter. Lor' me, my dear I I never was more put about in mylife. And 'ow Mr. Barber did laugh ! Oh, 'ow he did laugh !" Mrs. Barber laughed herself; long and loud: and Gabrielle could not help joining. " Now, my dear, will you be kind enough to tell me the names of some of these people ? I feel that bewildered among them all, I hardly know where I am ! As I said to your cousin Cissy?By-the...

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