DOWNTRODDEN SERVANT OR GRACIOUS LADY?
When Max, Earl Blakehurst, meets Verity he sees a downtrodden servant. He doesn-t distinguish her as the daughter of a colonel under whom he used to serve, the girl he-d one time helped years before. The life Verity-s now living is untenable. So he proposes a shocking answer--he will set her up as his ...
Montana Territory in 1883 was a dangerous situate-particularly for a blind woman struggling to do her way throughout an early winter snowstorm. Undaunted, Noelle Kramer fought to remain independent. But then a runaway horse nearly plunged her into a rushing, ice-choked river, before a stranger's strong, sure hand saved her from certain death. And ...
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence ...
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the much quoted in literature. And certainly what ...