Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 9, 2025
He seemed to have inherited something of the rector's self-possessed and rather formal courtesy, and at twenty he looked older than his age, though his face was as smooth as a girl's. He was not twenty-one, when his father died suddenly of fever. When the news reached Brackenhill the old squire was singularly affected by it.
She was a widow and had no children of her own, but when, at her brother's request, she came to Brackenhill to make more of a home for the school-boy, she brought with her a tiny girl, little Sissy Langton, a great-niece of her husband's.
James Thorne, with her coarsely-colored splendor and imperious ways, faded into the background now that Horace's little star had risen. The rest may be briefly told. Horace had a little sister who died, and he himself could hardly remember his father. His time was divided between his mother's house at Brighton and Brackenhill.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking