Kate Vernon: A Tale Vol. 2

by Mrs. Alexander

Excerpt from Kate Vernon, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale
But her regrets did not even border on the sentimental, and were spoken as openly as her grandfathers, 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.

122 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2023

About the author

Mrs Alexander was the pseudonym assumed by Annie Hector (née Annie French) (1825-1902), novelist. Born in Dublin, she moved to Liverpool, then London. In 1845 she became a magazine writer with encouragement from Mrs [Anna Maria] Hall, issuing her first novel, Look Before You Leap, in 1865.

Reviews

[Camille Jamison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tough to get through the deppressing parts but so so worth it to finish the trilogy.