Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. The Sneeze Affairs at San Justo were going on much as they had gone before George went away, the only difference being that Annie was now living in a cottage instead of in one room in a boarding-house and could therefore offer her visitors better accommodation. George took his old place in the choir, and the opera, which had to be abandoned because of him, was now resuscitated once more. Everybody was in high spirits and even the crop of straw came up to expectations. Still, everything that glitters is not gold, and George felt many an uncomfortable pang when he fancied that his intimacy with Annie was being unfavorably commented on. Perfectly innocent speeches of his friends seemed to have a hidden meaning and he constantly interpolated censure into the words of others. The words of a preacher, it is well known, often strike terror to the heart of the unregenerate when the worthy man is only drawing the long bow at a venture, and George, more than once, thought even the text was chosen with special reference to him. But the crime of which he felt himself to be guilty is perhaps as common as any other in the decalogue, and it is therefore natural that a pastor should give it a due share of attention, for, however it may be amongst the ungodly, it may be asserted with confidence that it is the one crime which professing Christians find most temptation to commit. However careless of public opinion Annie might be and however cool, under her tutelage, George might become, there is no doubt that they were brewing trouble for themselves, and that, as sure as the consequent follows the antecedent, so surely would Nemesis dog their steps until the time should arrive when an account would have to be rendered. George seemed to feel...