North and South - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Books -  - 9798687563598 - January 28, 2021
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North and South

Book Excerpt: ...'But are all these quite necessary troubles?' asked Margaret, looking up straight at him for an answer. A sense of indescribable weariness of all the arrangements for a pretty effect, in which Edith had been busied as supreme authority for the last six weeks, oppressed her just now; and she really wanted some one to help her to a few pleasant, quiet ideas connected with a marriage.'Oh, of course, ' he replied with a change to gravity in his tone. 'There are forms and ceremonies to be gone through, not so much to satisfy oneself, as to stop the world's mouth, without which stoppage there would be very little satisfaction in life. But how would you have a wedding arranged?''Oh, I have never thought much about it; only I should like it to be a very fine summer morning; and I should like to walk to church through the shade of trees; and not to have so many bridesmaids, and to have no wedding-breakfast. I dare say I am resolving against the very things that have given me..

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 28, 2021
ISBN13 9798687563598
Pages 462
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 24 mm   ·   612 g
Language English  

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