Loÿs, Lord Berresford

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Excerpt from Loÿs, Lord Berresford: And Other TalesBesides her loveliness, Theo has particularly fascin ating manners, a curious mixture of childishness and wisdom, self-possession and extreme shyness - a com bination which in her case is generally acknowledged to be most infinitely bewitching, she has also a rather coquettish manner of raising her eyes to those of any of her admirers with an expression in them, half pleading and half frightened, that does considerable execution in more ways than one, taking the poor victims' hearts by storm, and otherwise committing fearful havoc in the most innocent manner possible. In fact, there is little use in denying or concealing any longer that Theo is a confirmed flirt, not so much per haps from practice as from nature.She is also rather passionate and perverse, with the strongest inclination in the world to gain her own point, and has coaxed and tormented and frightened everybody from her birth upwards into granting her that point, until she has at length become both the terror and admiration of every soul in the establish ment, from Sir John himself down to the lowest stable boy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.