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Aikenside
Mary Jane Holmes
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"Dying, doctor," said one of the women, affirmatively, not interrogatively; but the doctor shook his head, and holding in one hand his watch he counted the faint pulse beats as with his eye he measured off the minute.
"There are too many here," he said. "She needs the air you are breathing," and in his singular, authoritative way, he cleared the crowded room of the mistaken friends who were unwittingly breathing up Maddy's very life.
All but the grandparents and Jessie; these he suffered to remain, and sitting down by Maddy, watched till the long sleep was ended. Silently and earnestly the aged couple prayed for their darling, asking that if possible she might be spared, and God heard their prayers, lifting, at last, the heavy fog from Maddy's brain, and waking her to life and part. . . Read More
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Another wonderful Mary Holmes writing...Historical full of rich characters and interesting plot. A unlikeable sort looking for a new school mum and then he kinda becomes a character you can't healp but like.
This year I've begun to read in addition to my normal fare, "old" fiction works. By old, I mean a hundred years or there about. Aikenside is a nice, demure, and pleasant book to read. The thrust is the development of a romantic relationship between a young, poor, self-sacrificing girl and a rich, so
A well-written, lovely, and ultimately incredibly, incredibly disappointing book.
Fourteen-and-a-half year-old Madeline Clyde decides she needs to go to work to support her aging grandparents, and finds herself torn between the simple life she was born into, and the unexpected opportunity to live an