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Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)

by Bennett Arnold

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Author: Bennett Arnold

Literature & Fiction » History & Criticism

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Although the book is pretty short, it is full of very interesting events and characters. Its plot is simply magical and amazing. From each word and on each page you can feel the warmth of the author's soul and his kindness. Although Helen with the High Hand may not seem serious at the first glimpse, it is very entertaining and definitely has its own advantages and appeal for readers.

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...occurred to her that her wisest plan would be tolaugh. So she laughed. She laughed in almost precisely the same manneras James had heard Susan laugh thirty years previously, before love hadcome into Susan's life like a shell into a fortress, and finally blowntheir fragile relations all to pieces. A few minutes earlier the sightof great-stepuncle James had filled Helen with sadness, and he had notsuspected it. Now her laugh filled James with sadness, and she did notsuspect it. In his sadness, however, he was glad that she laughed sonaturally, and that the sombre magnificence of her dress and her glovesand parasol did not prevent her from opening her rather large mouth andshowing her teeth. "It was just like mother to tell me fibs about her age, " said Helen, generously (it is always interesting to observe the transformation of alie into a fib). "And I shall write and tell her she's a horrid meanthing. I shall write to her this very night. ""So Susan's gone and married again!" James...

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