The Thief Of Virtue 1910

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V On the evening of this day Barbara Hext sat alone in her kitchen. The hour was late; the girl who worked for her had gone home; her sole companion was the liver-coloured spaniel called ' Sarah.' Miss Hext was fallen into a reverie--an accident rare in her life. Things had happened in the morning to throw her back upon the past. A man in the storm of love had done it; and when her private hours were come, instead of planning purchases for the shop, consulting dealers' catalogues, or mending clothes, she read old letters. None knew certainly concerning her youth save that she was the daughter of a dead and gone and godless water-bailiff. She had lived in London with a well-born man for three years; then he married, and she left him and returned to the Moor. Lovers came--some for her little fortune and some for herself. And once she loved and promised to marry. But when she told him the truth in the hour that she accepted him, he made it a condition that she should give away her money to the last farthing. She declined to do so; the match was broken off, and Barbara, who had no mind to the other suitors, disappeared again. For ten years she worked in London as forewoman in a department of a large general store. She had no more lovers, and became studious and contemplative. Then, on the edge of middle age, she returned to the home of her childhood and set up her little shop there. The folk believed that she was rich, and they knew that she was kind. But her goodness had always been a matter of debate. None understood her; Nonconformists and those of the Establishment alike feared her, and feared for her. Herself she was fearless and was reported to believe in nothing. Barbara read the letters, and emotion shone in her eyes. She...

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