The book The Bosom Friend : a Novel 1 was written by author Grey, Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline), 1798-1869 Here you can read free online of The Bosom Friend : a Novel 1 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Bosom Friend : a Novel 1 a good or bad book?
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Tenderly and devotedly did she tend her child through a long and dangerous attack of that most loathsome dis- ease. And it was from no expressions of regret from her mother, that Annie Hamilton was made aware that she had lost, through its 210 THE BOSOM FRIEND. ravages, the beauty on which she knew that mother had placed so high a value. A looking glass at last revealed the fact, and she beheld with a sharp pang, and a faint- ness at her heart, her swollen and disfigured features — her altered ...countenance! How bitter were the feelings of poor Annie, none ever knew, but He who sent the stroke, which deprived her of the gift which had been, for a brief space, bestowed upon her — for none ever heard a murmur, or a fractious word, at a dispensation so calculated to sour the temper — and which might have been supposed to be doubly trying, to a girl brought up to consider beauty, almost the chief requisite of a woman. " Poor mama ! how distressed she must be ! And Claud, what will he say when he finds his favourite sister such a fright," was all that she was heard to utter, and assuredly, this sad event was looked upon by every member of the family, in the light of a deep affliction — THE BOSOM FRIEND.
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