Other Non-Fiction Alexander, Mrs: Kate Vernon Vol 2. v1. 17 Jul 2015

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Annie French Hector, ‘Mrs Alexander’ (Dublin, Ireland, 1825 - London, 10 July 1902.) was a 19th-century popular novelist.

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It would give a very false idea of Kate Vernon’s character, were we to say that Captain Egerton’s departure did not leave a blank in the quiet routine of her life. Indeed, she was rather surprised to find how closely he had linked himself with the pleasures and occupations of the secluded little circle amongst whom accident had thrown him. She missed his ready companionship, and the amusing contrariety of his opinions and prejudices; she missed the interested attention with which he listened to every word that fell from her lips, and her eye, peculiarly alive to beauty in every form, missed his distinguished, soldierly figure, and bold, frank, open face. But her regrets did not even border on the sentimental, and were spoken as openly as her grandfather’s, who every hour in the day, for a week, at least, after his departure, might be heard to say—“If Fred Egerton was here, he would do this, or that, for me.” In short, Kate had never dreamt of Egerton as a lover. Marriage was to her a distant possibility—desirable, certainly, in due time, as she always considered it, if happy, the happiest state of life; but marriage with a soldier, who could not be always near her grandfather, was something so utterly beyond the powers of her imagination to conceive, that it gave her all the ease and security she might have felt with a brother.

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