The Other Linding Girl
“unless she broke away from Loriville and the family home. But there still seemed plenty of obstacles to prevent her from being the special one for Nigel Seton.
CHAPTER I Dr. Linding removed his spectacles and regarded his second daughter, with that kindly but matter-of-fact air which he used for instilling confidence into nervous patients and discouraging the loquacious ones from telling him their life-stories.
“Do you mean,” he said mildly, “that you're not really happy at home?”
“Oh, no, Fath...er! Nothing as bad as that. It’s just—” Rachel spread out her hands, in a gesture so oddly reminiscent of her dead mother that Dr. Linding, who had loved his wife very much, smiled indulgently—“it’s just that being the middle one of three sisters has its special problems.”
“I suppose it does.” Dr. Linding nodded understandingly. “Particularly when the elder one is a beauty and the younger one a minx.”
“And the middle one merely what people call ‘a nice girl’,”MoreLess
CHAPTER I Dr. Linding removed his spectacles and regarded his second daughter, with that kindly but matter-of-fact air which he used for instilling confidence into nervous patients and discouraging the loquacious ones from telling him their life-stories.
“Do you mean,” he said mildly, “that you're not really happy at home?”
“Oh, no, Fath...er! Nothing as bad as that. It’s just—” Rachel spread out her hands, in a gesture so oddly reminiscent of her dead mother that Dr. Linding, who had loved his wife very much, smiled indulgently—“it’s just that being the middle one of three sisters has its special problems.”
“I suppose it does.” Dr. Linding nodded understandingly. “Particularly when the elder one is a beauty and the younger one a minx.”
“And the middle one merely what people call ‘a nice girl’,”MoreLess
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