Vaila
, by Shiel, M. P.- ISBN: 9781419192234 | 141919223X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/30/2004
I asked with what motives, and in what particulars, the malice of his mother and aunt manifested itself. He replied that there was, he believed, no specific motive, but only a determined malevolence, involuntary and fated; and that the respect in which it manifested itself was to be found in the multiplied prayers and commands with which, for years, they had importuned him to seek again the far hold of his ancestors.