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... blanched thy blooming cheek ? Come hither one of you - I have a word Of special trust ( to Annabelle ) . There is a gentle girl Who hath been faithful to me since the day When first her eye look'd love and loveliness . • Succeeding ...
... blanched thy blooming cheek ? Come hither one of you - I have a word Of special trust ( to Annabelle ) . There is a gentle girl Who hath been faithful to me since the day When first her eye look'd love and loveliness . • Succeeding ...
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... Blanch Volner stood alone in the magnificent saloon , which had been just thronged with lordly company . She had that day taken possession of her immense property ; and her high rank and remark- able beauty and talent had gathered ...
... Blanch Volner stood alone in the magnificent saloon , which had been just thronged with lordly company . She had that day taken possession of her immense property ; and her high rank and remark- able beauty and talent had gathered ...
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... Blanch . The young de- serter was never heard of , and the festive magnifi- cence that had flashed for a moment in the palace of the Countess , entirely disappeared ; but she was not giving way to useless grief ; she sought out the ...
... Blanch . The young de- serter was never heard of , and the festive magnifi- cence that had flashed for a moment in the palace of the Countess , entirely disappeared ; but she was not giving way to useless grief ; she sought out the ...
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... Blanch did believe him ; she entreated to be allowed to see him , but her entreaties only extorted a promise that on the night before his execution she should be admitted to his cell : he was condemned to be broken on the wheel . The ...
... Blanch did believe him ; she entreated to be allowed to see him , but her entreaties only extorted a promise that on the night before his execution she should be admitted to his cell : he was condemned to be broken on the wheel . The ...
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... Blanch seemed restored to happiness , and entered the dark cell , trembling indeed , but with overpowering joy . A vene- rable priest , who had daily attended the young Count , had promised to meet them in the prison , and there Blanch ...
... Blanch seemed restored to happiness , and entered the dark cell , trembling indeed , but with overpowering joy . A vene- rable priest , who had daily attended the young Count , had promised to meet them in the prison , and there Blanch ...
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Page 37 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Page 403 - I was still feverish, and was obliged to keep within doors all day, in an inn of the small town of Derby. A wet Sunday in a country inn ! whoever has had the luck to experience one can alone judge of my situation. The rain pattered against the casements ; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound. I went to the windows in quest of something to amuse the eye ; but it seemed as if I had been placed completely out of the reach of all amusement. The windows of my bed-room looked out among tiled...
Page 405 - In such a situation as mine, every incident is of importance. Here was a subject of speculation presented to my mind, and ample exercise for my imagination. I am prone to paint pictures to myself, and on this occasion I had some materials to work upon. Had the guest upstairs been mentioned as Mr. Smith, or Mr. Brown, or Mr. Jackson, or Mr. Johnson, or merely as "the gentleman in No. 13," it would have been a perfect blank to me.
Page 406 - I should observe that she was a brisk, coquettish woman ; a little of a shrew, and something of a slammerkin, but very pretty withal; with a nincompoop for a husband, as shrews are apt to have. She rated the servants roundly for their negligence in sending up so bad a breakfast, but said not a word against the stout gentleman ; by which I clearly perceived that he must be a man of consequence, entitled to make a noise and to give trouble at a country inn. Other eggs, and ham, and bread and butter,...
Page 411 - As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy.
Page 405 - No. 13," it would have been a perfect blank to me. I should have thought nothing of it; but "The stout gentleman! "—the very name had something in it of the picturesque. It at once gave the size: it embodied the personage to my mind's eye, and my fancy did the rest. He was stout, or as some term it, lusty; in all probability, therefore, he was advanced in life, some people expanding as they grow old. By his breakfasting rather late, and in his own room, he must be a man accustomed to live at his...
Page 410 - There is something nobly simple and pure in such a taste : it argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of husbandry.
Page 407 - He must be a middle-aged man, and confounded ugly into the bargain, or the girl would not have taken the matter in such terrible dudgeon. I confess I was sorely puzzled. In a few minutes I heard the voice of my landlady. I caught a glance of her as she came tramping up stairs; — her face glowing, her cap flaring, her tongue wagging the whole way.
Page 407 - I was more than ever perplexed what to make of this unaccountable personage, who could put a good-natured chambermaid in a passion, and send away a termagant landlady in smiles. He could not be so old, nor cross, nor ugly either.
Page 406 - I had not made many turns about the travellers'-room, when there was another ringing. Shortly afterwards there was a stir and an inquest about the house. The stout gentleman wanted the Times or the Chronicle newspaper. I set him down, therefore, for a whig; or rather, from his being so absolute and lordly where he had a chance, I suspected him of being a radical. Hunt, I had heard, was a large man; "who knows," thought I, "but it is Hunt himself!