Vanessa

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B. Tauchnitz, 1874 - English fiction - 310 pages
 

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Page 39 - I'm an old man, sir ; but if I was to live for another century I should never forget that day, nor the night that followed it. Amy sprang across the floor and threw herself on her knees before me: but I had no mercy. It was more than I could bear. She had been my first thought in the morning and my last at night ; my heart was bound up in her. I'd watched over her when she was an infant in the cradle, cherished her when she'd no other parent, given up...
Page 158 - They had driven through the lodge-gates, and the carriage was now winding slowly up the wild and woodland ascent which led to the castle. Even at such a critical moment, Helen would have been drawn out of herself at the first glimpse of the bright brown stream which marked the windings of the valley by its turbulent course. The steep banks were fringed with silver-stemmed birch trees and by a sweep of purple heather, stretching away to the background of yet more purple mountains ; but Amy saw it...

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