Helen Vardon's Confession

by R Austin Freeman

Overview

To every woman there comes a day (and that all too soon) when she receives the first hint that Time, the harvester, has not passed her by unnoticed. The waning of actual youth may have passed with but the faintest regret, if any; regret for the lost bud being merged in the triumph at the glory of the opening blossom. But the waning of womanhood is another matter. Old age has no compensations to offer for those delights that it steals away. At least, that is what I understand from those who know, for I must still speak on the subject from hearsay, having received from Father Time but the very faintest and most delicate hint on the subject. I was sitting at my dressing-table brushing out my hair, which is of a docile habit, though a thought bulky, when amidst the black tress- blacker than it used to be when, I was a girl-I noticed a single white hair.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544084954
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/16/2017
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

British author Richard Austin Freeman (1862 -1943) wrote detective stories, many featuring medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a plot device in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman was a colonial surgeon and used some of his knowledge to add details to his story, including tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.