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A Rose in June
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By Margaret Oliphant 27 Nov, 2019
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Excerpt........Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things. Let the child alone—she will never be young again if she should live a hundred years!” These words were spoken in the garden of Dinglefield Rectory on a very fine su ... Read more
Excerpt........Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things. Let the child alone—she will never be young again if she should live a hundred years!” These words were spoken in the garden of Dinglefield Rectory on a very fine summer day a few years ago. The speaker was Mr. Damerel, the rector, a middle-aged man with very fine, somewhat worn features, a soft benignant smile, and, as everybody said who knew him, the most charming manners in the world. He was a man of very elegant mind as well as manners. He did not preach often, but when he did preach all the educated persons in his congregation felt that they had very choice fare indeed set before them. I am afraid the poor folk liked the curate best, but then the curate liked them best, and it mattered very little to any man or woman of refinement what sentiment existed between the cottagers and the curate........   Less
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  • 2015-08-11
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Margaret Oliphant
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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works ...
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