Self-indulgence, a tale [by lady C.S.M. Bury]. |
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... Pierre , a rustic villager , I no more believe it , than that I am the son of Peter the Great ; it is much more likely , she is some kept mistress , or some girl abandoned by her lover . " " Why , all in this place , " returned De Mo ...
... Pierre , a rustic villager , I no more believe it , than that I am the son of Peter the Great ; it is much more likely , she is some kept mistress , or some girl abandoned by her lover . " " Why , all in this place , " returned De Mo ...
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... , and recals us to the cares of life . Pierre le Roche looked in and called Ma- demoiselle Corissande , who rose with alacrity , and hastened to obey his sum mons . Donneraile sat some moments , in a kind of dream SELF - INDULGENCE . 113.
... , and recals us to the cares of life . Pierre le Roche looked in and called Ma- demoiselle Corissande , who rose with alacrity , and hastened to obey his sum mons . Donneraile sat some moments , in a kind of dream SELF - INDULGENCE . 113.
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... Pierre la Roche ; for though she did not say it in so many words , and though she always cal- led him father , she took no pains to con- ceal , that her origin was from some far no- bler stock . One night as Donneraile was returning to ...
... Pierre la Roche ; for though she did not say it in so many words , and though she always cal- led him father , she took no pains to con- ceal , that her origin was from some far no- bler stock . One night as Donneraile was returning to ...
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... Pierre , who has indeed been a fa- ther to me . But more of this hereafter . Oh , ever dear De Beaufort , tell me of yourself ; of your health . Where was my heart , that I should have passed so many days under the same roof with one so ...
... Pierre , who has indeed been a fa- ther to me . But more of this hereafter . Oh , ever dear De Beaufort , tell me of yourself ; of your health . Where was my heart , that I should have passed so many days under the same roof with one so ...
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... Pierre la Roche : At the same time , he threatened the most dreadful vengeance , if we failed to obey him - whether , by being himself leagued with the monsters who had deluged the country with blood , he feared their malig- nity , or ...
... Pierre la Roche : At the same time , he threatened the most dreadful vengeance , if we failed to obey him - whether , by being himself leagued with the monsters who had deluged the country with blood , he feared their malig- nity , or ...
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agitation Baron de Beaufort beauty beheld blessed bosom breast calm child Comte de Beaufort Comte de Morienne conceal Coris Corissande Corissande's cottage cried Dainville dear delight Dickens Donne Donneraile's door earth endeavoured eyes Fanchon fancy fatal father fear feel felt find a grave foster parents gazed Granville hand happiness heard heart heaven honour hope horror husband issande Jeanneton Joigni knew Lady Donneraile leave length letter look Lord Donneraile Louis lover MADAME DE GENLIS Mademoiselle marriage melancholy ment mind Montbazon mournful nature neraile ness never once pain pardon parents passed passion person Pierre Pierre la Roche pleasure Pontarlier poor remained replied returned sande scene seemed senses silence Sir Harry Carisfort soon soothed Sophia sorrow soul suffered sure tears tender thing thought tion uttered voice wife wish words wound wretched young
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Page 95 - That landscape ; and of pure, now purer air Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Page 87 - ... wretchedness. A man of the lowest extraction, to whom I had rendered some service in the regiment of , though leagued with these blood hounds, still retained some sentiments of humanity, and laboured with incessant earnestness to obtain my liberty, while in the interim he restored me to valueless health. He effected my release about three weeks afterwards ; oh ! fatal kindness, the life of life was gone for ever, why was mere existence left ?" Again the Comte de Morienne paused, pressed his hand...
Page 79 - The Comte de Morienne was persons who seemed designed for one of those persons that seemed another age than the present ; his high chivalrous sentiments, his noble dignity of mien and deportment, together with his wild romance of character, were ill calculated under any circumstances for the evanescent froth of senseless wit, and the heartless selfishness of modern philosophy. It...
Page 85 - ... regularly every year to drink the waters. She was a woman whose virtues were an honour to humanity, and who is now assuredly a saint in heaven. She had two daughters and a son ; one of the daughters just entering on womanhood, the other an infant —Violante and Leonora. Violante was my betrothed wife : the day was fixed that was to unite us, but that sun of joy was never to rise for me : the troubles broke out, and the mere recollection of that tragedy which parted us. inspires me with all of...
Page 242 - But never to me shall the summer renew The bowers where the days of my happiness flew ; Where my soul found her partner, and thought to bestow The colours of heaven on the dwellings of woe ! Too faithful recorders of times that are past, The Eden of Love that was ever to last ! Once more may soft accents your wild echoes fill, And the young and the happy be worshippers still.
Page 151 - ... partaking of the general joy and congratulation, nor murmuring that, while such a scene engages and employs their faculties, the wheels of time do( not more rapidly bring on the promised period of translation to another and more enduring heaven. An anonymous modern writer has beautifully said, " There are moments in existence which comprise the power of years ; as thousands of roses are contained in a few drops of their essence.
Page 14 - ... to which those laws degrade them, render the lives of some few in the higher, and of thousands in the lower ranks of life, one perpetual sati, or burning of the heart, from which they have no refuge but the grave, or the cap of liberty, — ie the widow's, and either is a sad consolation.
Page 85 - ... to humanity, and who is surely rewarded in a better world for the indignities and misery she suffered in this. She had two daughters of exquisite beauty. Eliane, the eldest, was my betrothed wife : the other was some years younger. The day was fixed that was to unite us, but that sun of joy was...
Page 80 - ... level with some particular instance of frailty, and to make it an excuse for such by proving it to be the portion of all; or to confuse and mislead the thoughtless, so that they forget the real boundaries which divide vice from virtue. ' But on the Conte Miguez there was a seal of pre-eminence set, and it was not in the power of the world to efface the heavenly impression. Misfortune had, indeed, somewhat tempered the enthusiastic flame which once shone in the expressive features of Rodriguez;...