Miss Bretherton

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Mrs. Humphry Ward. Miss Bretherton

Miss Bretherton

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

'CASA MINGHETTI 2, GRAND CANAL,

WALLACE TO KENDAL

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

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Mrs. Humphry Ward

Published by Good Press, 2019

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'Yes, very. People have been so extraordinarily kind to me, and it is all such a new experience after that little place Kingston. I should have my head turned, I think,' she added, with a happy little laugh, 'but that when one cares about one's art one is not likely to think too much of one's self. I am always despairing over what there is still to do, and what one may have done seems to make no matter.'

She spoke with a pretty humility, evidently meaning what she said, and yet there was such a delightful young triumph in her manner, such an invulnerable consciousness of artistic success, that Kendal felt a secret stir of amusement as he recalled the criticisms which among his own set he had most commonly heard applied to her.

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