Rhoda Broughton

Lavinia Rhoda Broughton

Excerpt: In the eyes of all them to whom she was already known, has been welcome, a little hesitating surprise, and a not unkindly curiosity. They know that she has passed through deep waters since last in her bloom and bonnincss they had looked upon her, though they little guess the awful Dead Sea bitterness of taste of the waters that have gone over her. Is she recovered enough to be treated like any one else ? She has come back from the grave! Is it any wonder that at first she walks in a maze-as one suddenly awakened from a century of sleep, doubtfully re-entering the kingdom of life