【生活常识教科书】THE_QUEST_OF_THE_GOLDEN_GIRL(金色女孩的探寻).pdfVIP

更多好书请点击 THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GIRL A ROMANCE THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GIRL A ROMANCE BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE TO PRIOR AND LOUISE CHRISTIAN, WITH AFFECTION. Gennem de Mange til En! 1 更多好书请点击 THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GIRL A ROMANCE 2 更多好书请点击 THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GIRL A ROMANCE BOOK I CHAPTER I AN OLD HOUSE AND ITS BACHELOR When the knell of my thirtieth birthday sounded, I suddenly realised, with a desolate feeling at the heart, that I was alone in the world. It was true I had many and good friends, and I was blessed with interests and occupations which I had often declared sufficient to satisfy any not too exacting human being. Moreover, a small but sufficient competency was mine, allowing me reasonable comforts, and the luxuries of a small but choice library, and a small but choice garden. These heavenly blessings had seemed mere than enough for nearly five years, during which the good sister and I had kept house together, leading a life of tranquil happy days. Friends and books and flowers! It was, we said, a good world, and I, simpleton,--pretty and dainty as Margaret was,--deemed it would go on forever. But, alas! one day came a Faust into our garden,--a good Faust, with no friend Mephistopheles,--and took Margaret from me. It is but a month since they were married, and the rice still lingers in the crevices of the pathway down to the quaint old iron-work gate. Yes! they have gone off to spend their honeymoon, and Margaret has written to me twice to say how hap