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Excerpt from Young Mrs. Jardine Morally - yes, there was similarity there; for Mrs. Jardine was a good woman, and Roderick was, as she ceaselessly declared, being very outspoken as to her feelings, the best of sons, though he was a little "peculiar," like his poor dear father, of whom he was the very image. This was true. Her three daughters - now married and settled, except the last, who was just about to be - all took after herself. Not her present self, perhaps, but the comely lassie she must have been once - fair-haired, round-cheeked, with a wide mouth and slightly projecting teeth - though possessing sufficient good looks to be a belle in Richerden. Roderick alone "favoured" the other side of the house - the tall, dark, rather sad-looking father, who came of old Highland blood, and not being in business, like most of the Richerden folk, had led a rather retired life, keeping himself very much in the background, even amidst his own family. Nobody really knew him, or thought much of him, until he died, which event happened just before his son went to college. Since then his widow had gradually blossomed out into great splendour; married her two daughters, taken her independent place in society, Richerden society, as a woman - I beg pardon, a lady - ought to do, who has a large fortune, a fine family, and a great capacity for managing both. People had said that she managed her husband: but those who knew Mr. Jardine questioned this. Gentle as he was, he was not exactly a man to be "managed" by anybody. "What were you saying, Rody, my lamb?" Now, if there was a pet name the young fellow disliked, it was his childish diminutive of "Rody." And no man of five-and-twenty is altogether pleased at being called "a lamb." "Can you spare two minutes from that very delightful conversation of yours to listen to me, mother?" "Ou ay, my dear." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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