The New Magdalen: A Novel, Volume 12

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Harper, 1893 - 325 pages
 

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Page 215 - ... some beautiful archangel with purple wings — MORELL. Some fiddlestick! Oh, if she is mad enough to leave me for you, who will protect her? who will help her? who will work for her? who will be a father to her children? [He sits down distractedly on the sofa, with his elbows on his knees and his head propped on his clenched fists}. MARCHBANKS [snapping his fingers wildly] She does not ask those silly questions.
Page 176 - Rise, poor wounded heart ! Beautiful, purified soul, God's angels rejoice over you! Take your place among the noblest of God's creatures !
Page 292 - If there is one thing I hate more than another, it is such a sneaking varlet as that Dwining !" " Have a care he does not hear you say so,
Page 18 - Grace obeyed without a word more. There was a momentary silence. A faint flash of light leaped up from the expiring candle, and showed Mercy crouching on the chest, with her elbows on her knees, and her face hidden in her hands. The next instant the room was buried in obscurity. As the darkness fell on the two women the nurse spoke. CHAPTER II. MAGDALEN — IN MODERN TIMES. "WHEN your mother was alive were you ever out with her after nightfall in the streets of a great city?" In those extraordinary...
Page 265 - Horace had lovtd her — how dearly, Julian now knew for the first time. The bare possibility that she might earn her pardon if she was allowed to plead her own cause, was a possibility still left. To let her win on Horace to forgive her, was death to the love that still filled his heart in secret. But he never hesitated. With a resolution which the weaker man was powerless to resist, he took him by the arm and led him back to his place. " For her sake, and for your sake, you shall not condemn her...
Page 162 - ... Let her own the truth, without the base fear of discovery to drive her to it. Let her do justice to the woman whom she has wronged, while that woman is still powerless to expose her. Let her sacrifice everything that she has gained by the fraud to the sacred duty of atonement. If she can do that, then her repentance has nobly revealed the noble nature that is in her; then she is a woman to be trusted, respected, beloved.
Page 151 - Are you there, aunt t" it asked, cautiously. There was a momcnt'spause. Then the voice spoke for the third time, sounding louder and nearer. "Are you there t" it reiterated ; " I have something to tell you." Mercy summoned her resolution, and answered, " Lady Janet is not here." She turned as she spoke toward the conservatory door, and confronted on the threshold Julian Gray. They looked at one another without exchanging a word on either side. The situation — for widely different reasons — was...
Page 161 - All her energies may he crushed under the despair and horror of herself, out of which the truest repentance grows. Is such a woman as this all wicked, all vile ? I deny it ! She may have a noble nature ; and she may show it nobly yet. Give her the opportunity she needs — and our poor fallen fellowcreature may take her place again among the best of us ; honoured, blameless, happy once more !" Mercy's eyes, resting eagerly on him while he was speaking, dropped again despondingly when he had done....
Page 123 - The doctor!" she repeated, disdainfully. "I brought Grace back last night in sheer despair, and I sent for the doctor this morning. He is at the head of his profession ; he is said to be making ten thousand a year ; and he knows no more about it than I do. I am quite serious. The great physician has just gone away with two guineas in his pocket. One guinea for advising me to keep her quiet ; another guinea for telling me to trust to time. Do you wonder how he gets on at this rate? My dear boy, they...
Page 158 - He held up his hand in warning. The tones of his voice deepened ; the lustre of his eyes brightened. She had stirred in the depths of that great heart the faith in which the man lived — the steady principle which guided his modest and noble life. "No!

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