 | Dorothea Gerard - 1890 - 324 sider
...got beyond her single-handed control. By the time breakfast was over, she had made up her mind that there was nothing to be gained, and possibly everything to be lost, by withholding the truth any longer from those most interested in it ; and as a resolve with Maud was... | |
 | 1889 - 932 sider
...got beyond her single-handed control By the time breakfast was over, she had made up her mind that there was nothing to be gained, and possibly everything to be lost, by withholding the truth any longer from those most interested in it ; and as a resolve with Maud was... | |
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... to put a guard upon the shoemaker — if not, indeed, to secure his person. This, a very brief reflection assured Maud, she could not do unaided. Events, as she was wise enough to acknowledge, had got beyond her single-handed control. By the time... 