This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... quick and grateful feeling of any attention and kindness from her friends, especially from Rosamond, of whom she was excessively fond, enjoyed so much that time of the day, when Rosamond read to her, that she called it her happy hour. She looked forward to it, as she said, when she lay awake in the night, or when she wakened in the morning, it was her first pleasant idea. Rosamond, to whom Mrs. Egerton had shown constant kindness, ever since their first acquaintance in the days of the India Cabinet, was delighted to have this opportunity of showing her gratitude, and of contributing to her old friend s daily comfort. Mrs. Egerton had this season taken a house so near to that in which Rosamond lived, and so situated that she could pass and repass through the green park in a few minutes at any time, without the difficulties which in town usually attend the exits and entrances of young ladies. Her mother had given her leave to go to Mrs. Egerton's constantly, provided always that she should be punctual to the hour, when a servant was appointed to attend her; but it was a rule that, if she were not ready at that moment, she was not to go at any other time of the day, and then her old friend missed, for that day, her happy hour. Gratitude, and the pleasure of giving pleasure, had been sufficiently powerful to make Rosamond, what all who knew her once despaired of her ever being, very punctual. She was now reading Waverly to her friend; and, as she had a quick ear, and had caught many varieties of Scotch pronunciation, which she learned during a visit she paid in her childhood to a friend in Scotland, she could do greater justice to the admirable scenes in that romance than many a more experienced English reader. It is doing necessary justice to Godfrey to prem...