. Maud is only seventeen . English: Identifier: eleanorfortesque00fort (find matches) Title: Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Fortescue-Brickdale, Eleanor Subjects: Women in literature Publisher: London New York : Hodder and Stoughton Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text App
. Maud is only seventeen . English: Identifier: eleanorfortesque00fort (find matches) Title: Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Fortescue-Brickdale, Eleanor Subjects: Women in literature Publisher: London New York : Hodder and Stoughton Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: BECKY SHARP 145 was consumed with grief for her father. She had a little room in the garret, where the maids heard her walking and sobbing at night; but it was with rage, and not with grief. She had not been much of a dissembler, until now her loneliness taught her to feign. She had never mingled in the society of women: her father, reprobate as he was, was a man of talent; his conversation was a thousand times more agreeable to her than the talk of such of her own sex as she now encountered. The pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress, the foolish good-humour of her sister, the silly chat and scandal of the elder girls, and the frigid correctness of the governesses equally annoyed her; and she had no soft maternal heart, this unlucky girl, otherwise the prattle and talk of the younger children, with whose care she was chiefly entrusted, might have soothed and interested her; but she lived among them two years, and not one was sorry that she went away. The gentle tender-hearted Amelia Sedley was the onl Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. . 1919. Internet Archive Book Images 182 Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famo
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