Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Doubting Heart, Vol. 2 of 3
One day while Emmie was looking over the balusters, a stout, long-trained lady, with a dazzling bird-of paradise in her bonnet, suddenly looked upwards, and so evidently saw something in the distant perspective of the winding staircase to arrest her attention, that a tall young man who was following lifted up his face and saw too only the top of a retreating head Emmie hoped, for, though the first glance had somehow fascinated her and kept her for quite a second staring down into the broad, smiling, good-humouredly inquisitive face that was turned up towards her, she had presence of mind to dart away before the younger pair of equally good humoured inquisitive eyes had quite found her out. A sudden suspicion, turned into certainty by a moment's thought, shot through her and caused her to tingle all over. Yes, those were the Kirkmans: the mother and son whose names Aunt Rivers brought forward so con stantly in her conversations with Emmie, and introduced even into those gossipy confidences with her nurse, which Alma used to frown upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
