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Floyd Grandon's Honor By: Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831-1916) |
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Popular Edition By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS Cloth New uniform binding
Per volume $1.00 BETHIA WRAY'S NEW NAME
THE HEIR OF BRADLEY HOUSE
OSBORNE OF ARROCHAR
CLAUDIA
FROM HAND TO MOUTH
HOME NOOK
HOPE MILLS
IN TRUST
WHOM KATHIE MARRIED
THE FORTUNES OF THE FARADAYS
LOST IN A GREAT CITY
NELLY KINNARD'S KINGDOM
OUT OF THE WRECK
STEPHEN DANE
SYDNIE ADRIANCE
IN WILD ROSE TIME
IN THE KING'S COUNTRY
A WOMAN'S INHERITANCE
FLOYD GRANDON'S HONOR
THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE
FOES OF HER HOUSEHOLD
A MODERN ADAM AND EVE IN A GARDEN
SEVEN DAUGHTERS LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers
BOSTON
FLOYD GRANDON'S HONOR by AMANDA M. DOUGLAS Author of
"In Trust," "The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe," Etc. Boston
Lee and Shepard Publishers
1899 Copyright,
1883,
By Lee and Shepard.
All rights reserved.
TO DR. AND MRS. THEO. R. LUFF. Through silent spaces hands may be outstretched,
Remembrance blossom in dim atmospheres;
Friends are not less the friends though far apart;
They count the loss and gain of vanished years.
FLOYD GRANDON'S HONOR. CHAPTER I. "There is a courtesy of the heart. Is it akin to love?" GOETHE..
It is the perfection of summer, early June, before the roses have
shaken off their sweetness, and Grandon Park is lovely enough to
compare with places whose beauty is an accretion of centuries rather
than the work of decades. Yet these grand old trees and this bluff,
with a strata of rock manifest here and there, are much older than the
pretty settlement lying at its base. The quaint house of rough, gray
stone, with a tower and a high balcony hung out at irregular intervals,
the windows and angles and the curious pointed roof, stamp it as
something different from the Swiss villas and cottage ornées at its
feet. Not very near, though; there is a spacious lawn and a wide drive, a
grove of trees that can shut out intrusive neighbors to the south, as
well as another dense thicket northward. There is the road at a
distance on one side, and the broad, beautiful river on the other. Down
below, a mile, perhaps, a rocky point juts out into the river, up above
another, so this forms a kind of indentation, an exclusive sort of bay
for the dwellers therein, and the whole rather aristocratic settlement
is put down on the railway map as Grandon Park. But it is at the stone house on its very brow where the master, Floyd
Grandon, is expected home to day after years of wandering and many
changes. In the library his mother and sisters are gathered. It is a
favorite place with Gertrude, who spends her days on the sofa reading.
Marcia much affects her own "study," up under the eaves, but to day she
is clothed and in her right mind, free from dabs of paint or fingers
grimed with charcoal and crayons. Laura is always Laura, a stylish
young girl, busy with the strip of an extremely elegant carriage robe,
and Mrs. Grandon, a handsome woman past fifty, has a bit of embroidery
in her hands. She seems never exactly idle, but now she holds her work
and listens, then drops into musing. "I wonder what can be the matter?" she exclaims presently. "It is
full half an hour behind time," looking at her watch. "Are you in a hurry?" asks a languid voice from the luxurious Turkish
lounge. "Gertrude! How heartless you are! When we have not seen Floyd for seven
years!" in a tone of reproach. "If he were only coming alone " "And if we did know whether he is married or not!" This young, impatient voice is Laura's. Not that it will make any great
difference to her. "We cannot dispossess Floyd," says Marcia, in a queer, caustic tone.
"And a new mistress " Marcia has a great gift for making people uncomfortable. "You seem so certain that he has married her," the mother comments in a
kind of incredulous impatience. "Well, he was in love with her before. And now their travelling
together, his bringing her here, look wonderfully like it." "Well, what then? She is rich, handsome, an elegant society woman, and
just your age, Gertrude... Continue reading book >>
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