Romantic TalesChapman and Hall, 1838 - 215 pages |
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Page 209 - Heaven, What love sincere, and reverence in my heart, I bear thee, and unweeting have offended, Unhappily deceived! Thy suppliant, I beg, and clasp thy knees; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress My only strength and stay; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce...
Page 107 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 198 - Bru. Let them enter. [Exit Lucius. They are the faction. O conspiracy ! Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, When evils are most free ? O, then, by day, Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy; Hide it in smiles, and affability : For if thou path, thy native semblance on, Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee from prevention.
Page 9 - ... a smile of the sweetest gentleness and most heavenly forbearance.' As to Edward, he and his aunt are at open enmity: three minutes of conversation with her are generally sufficient to make him throw out fire and flames; then he flies out of the room, and up go the whites of her eyes more piteously than ever. But undoubtedly her greatest favourite in the family, I mean the greatest upon two legs, is little Willy; he holds the very next place in her good graces to the tortoise-shell cat. Of this...
Page 45 - She enters upon her defence with the more warmth, the less there is reason upon her side; he rejoins — she replies — with every moment their expostulations grow more vehement. But now Cordelia interposes like an angel of peace, gently places one white hand before the lips of her incensed husband, and extends the other, in sign of amity, to her embarrassed sister-in-law. It is received with an air of overstrained humility, that shows Miss Grimalkin would still be impertinent, if she dared ; and...
Page 7 - I see everything that he is about) he frequently reads over and over again certain little notes (written on a fine shining paper with coloured edges, and very neatly folded up), and which he seldom fails to press repeatedly to his lips before he arrives at the end of them. As to the peculiarities of his temper, I observe by what passes between him and his father, and still more between him and a certain aunt who frequents the family, that his feelings are quick and susceptible, and that he easily...
Page 1 - On these occasions he contented himself with shaking me by the hand in silence, laying his finger on his lip, and pointing to a joint-stool which stood close by the window; for he occupied himself the only chair in the room, and even that had but three legs to boast of: the joint-stool therefore, though not so dignified a seat, was in fact a much more secure and comfortable one. But when I found myself established on my joint-stool, how was I to employ myself? When my uncle was seized with one of...
Page 38 - Cordelia is more ornamented than usual ; she has a turban on with a sultana plume, which becomes her singularly. Willy too has got his best clothes on. There is certainly something in the wind. His mother is reading to him out of the large Shakspeare, which I mentioned before, but she finds it difficult to make him attend to her ; he jumps up every minute, and runs to look out of the window. A quarter past six — stay ! Have the goodness to hand me that newspaper, my dear uncle. Let me see — "...
Page 35 - Hope elevates, and joy Brightens her crest. — The door opens; she goes in, but her companion remains in the street. Surely I have seen that fellow's face before; as I hope to live, the very postman to whom Cordelia confided her letter? He is trying a piece of money with his teeth! A bribe, no doubt, and if the fellow received it from Sempronia — alas! for poor Cordelia's secret. The aunt throws open the study door, and with a look of exultation slaps down a letter upon the table before her brother....
Page 28 - The ambassadress must know but little of Cordelia, if she supposes that she will receive a letter which reaches her by so mysterious a conveyance. Accordingly, she has already quitted the piano-forte in pursuit of the fugitive ; the letter has fallen on the ground, and .... but softly ! she stops suddenly with her hand resting upon the lock of the door. The letter, which now lies on the carpet, has caught her eye ; she certainly must have recognised some well-known hand-writing.