The Chaste Wife (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Chaste Wife It was a very hot day in the middle of summer. The sky was cloudless, and as Priscilla lay in the hammock under a big mulberry-tree she seemed to hear the whole garden droning with the busy song of bees, bumbling as it were with satisfaction at a harvest so happily plentiful. Near to Priscilla were two young men, both of whom were in flannels, as though they either had been playing or were about to play tennis. Two racquets had been tossed aside upon the grass, and a little farther away, through a screen of bushes (favourable cover for the adroitly self-losing tennis balls), could be seen a delectable lawn upon which the single court had been marked out and a net erected. But the two young men made no stir in the direction of their game - the one because he was in love with Priscilla, the other because he was an unusually lazy person - and continued to lounge in the wicker chairs which offered such shady harbourage. All three seemed to be drowsy, lost in the lulling sweetness of the afternoon heat. There were many flowers in the sunny part of the garden: the scent of them was heavy, as thickly mingled as the morning choruses of birds which awakened Priscilla each day. Romeo, a little cat, toyed fancifully with a crawling insect upon a neighbouring path. Priscilla, in her barely stationary hammock, listened idly to the sounds of the garden. Her brother David watched the thin stream of smoke drift from the bowl of his pipe. Hilary Badoureau, who lay so far back in his chair that his head was little higher than his knees, frowned in a sort of smiling ecstasy. 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.