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The Making Of A Woman & What The Wind Did, EPUB eBook

The Making Of A Woman & What The Wind Did EPUB

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Excerpt: "She sat at her window overlooking the wide and dreary expanse of marshland.

A faint streak of light near the horizon was all that could be seen of the sea.

No trees or buildings broke the monotonous scene, and Jean's deep inquiring blue eyes sought in vain for anything to brighten her landscape.

She was young, she was vigorous and healthy, and her spirits were good as a rule; yet to-day she was in the depths of depression, and the grey mist that was slowly rolling in from the ocean and obliterating the russet-brown rushes and the coarse dank grass that stretched for so many miles in front of her, only seemed a fit emblem of the cloud over her soul.

She threw up her head at last with a weary sigh. "He is my grandfather!" she exclaimed aloud. "My father's father! But oh! If he had been my mother's father, how differently I should feel!" She looked round her room, which was a large one, though barely and insufficiently furnished.

Her eyes fell on a small oil painting on the wall. It was the portrait of her mother. The broad white brow, the delicately chiselled little nose, and sweet tremulous lips with their pathetic droop, and the deep earnest, soul-searching eyes, all combined to portray a sweet and beautiful woman.

Jean inherited her mother's brow and eyes; her nose and mouth were more decided in character, her chin round and determined, and humour lightened the corners of her closely-shut lips.

As her eyes met the ones in the portrait, she suddenly saw a scene before her.

It had been enacted in this very room many years ago.

A tiny curly-headed girl in black frock and white pinafore stood hugging a picture to her breast, and defying a stern old man before her."

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