Milly Darrell, and other tales, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'., Volume 3John Maxwell and Company, 1873 |
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Page 143 - that I should not affect any feminine virtues which I do not possess. After this Edward insisted on driving our ponycarriage almost every day, leaving Miss Tremaine to find her own amusement; and I think this conversation was the beginning of an estrangement between them, which became more serious than any of their previous quarrels had been. Miss
Page 135 - the sofa, and Edward slipped into her place, and devoted himself for the rest of the evening to his betrothed. I glanced at his bright expressive face now and then as he talked to her, and could not help wondering what charm he could discover in one who seemed to me so unworthy of him.
Page 122 - I wish you could come at Christmas,' she wrote, in the autumn of the year of which I am speaking. ' We shall be very gay, and I expect all manner of pleasant people at the Abbey. Edward is to be married early in the spring—much to his father's satisfaction, for the match
Page 151 - but the wildest snatch of melody Weber ever wrote had not so ghastly a sound as these few simple notes conveyed to my ear. I stood transfixed, listening to that awful music. It had grown dusk, my fire was almost out, and the room in shadow. As I listened, a light flashed
Page 162 - And yet from that moment I began to puzzle myself in the endeavour to devise some means by which Edward's journey might be prevented. Of my own influence I knew that I was powerless to hinder his departure by so much as an hour; but I fancied that Julia
Page 138 - took the trouble to conceal, she was really anxious to gratify her lover. Their courtship was not altogether a halcyon period. They had frequent quarrels, the details of which Edward's sisters, Sophy and Agnes, delighted to discuss with me. It was the struggle of two proud spirits for mastery;
Page 171 - a very poor one. Julia Tremaine had danced a little at the beginning of the evening, to keep up appearances, I believe, in order that no one might suppose that she was distressed by her lover's absence; but after the first two or three dances she pronounced herself tired, and withdrew to a seat amongst the matrons. She
Page 146 - he was pacing the drawing-room to and fro from end to end, with an air that was at once moody and restless. ' Thank heaven, the frost has broken up at last!' he exclaimed, stopping in front of the window where I sat.
Page 170 - a long interregnum devoted to the arts and mysteries of the toilet; while maids flitted to and fro laden with frilled muslin petticoats from the laundry, and a faint smell of singed hair pervaded the corridors. At ten o'clock the
Page 157 - her breath; and then turning to me, she said with a cheery resolute air, ' You've been dreaming, Miss Sarah, that's just what it is. You've dropped off in your chair before the fire, and had a dream, that's it.