The Dolliver romance and FanshaweHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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angler answered apothecary appeared began better bottle Bowdoin College Brazen Serpent bright chamber cheek child Colonel comfort companion comrade continued cordial cottage countenance Crombie's danger dark death deep doctor DOLLIVER ROMANCE Dolliver's door drew Edward Walcott Ellen Langton evident exclaimed eyes face fancied Fanshawe Fanshawe's father fear feeling felt gazed grandpapa Grandsir Dolliver grave gray guest hand happiness Harley College Hawthorne head heart Heaven horse hostler Hugh Crombie inquired knight-errant lady landlord length little Pansie look looking-glass man's means Melmoth ment mind morning moth mystery NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE nature ness never night observed pale panion Pansie's passed paused perceived perhaps poor replied Edward rock scarcely scene seemed shrubs speak spirits stood stranger stream strong student sunbeam Swinnerton thought tion tone took trees tremulous triturated trust turned voice walk wandering weary window wine woman words young youth
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Page 10 - You ought to be thankful that (like most other broken-down authors) I do not pester you with decrepit pages, and insist upon your accepting them as full of the old spirit and vigor. That trouble, perhaps, still awaits you, after I shall have reached a further stage of decay. Seriously, my mind has, for the present, lost its temper and its fine edge, and I have an instinct that I had better keep quiet. Perhaps I shall have a new spirit of vigor, if I wait quietly for it ; perhaps not.
Page 19 - Doctor, hoping with one effort to clear his throat of the dregs of a ten years' cough. " Matters are not so far gone with me as I thought. I have known mighty sensible men, when only a little age-stricken or otherwise out of sorts, to die of mere faintheartedness, a great deal sooner than they need.
Page 22 - The Doctor opened it, and there she stood, a rather pale and large-eyed little thing, quaint in her aspect, as might well be the case with a motherless child, dwelling in an uncheerful house, with no other playmates than a decrepit old man and a kitten, and no better atmosphere...
Page 168 - I see that you have girded on a sword," said the divine. " But wherewith shall I defend myself, my hand being empty, except of this golden-headed staff, the gift of Mr. Langton ? " " One of these, if you will accept it...
Page 168 - I see that you have girded on a sword,' said the divine. 'But wherewith shall I defend myself? my hand being empty except of this golden-headed staff, the gift of Mr. Langton.' "'One of these, if you will accept it,' answered Edward, exhibiting a brace of pistols, 'will serve to begin the conflict before you join the battle hand to hand.
Page 208 - When within a few feet of the summit, the adventurer grasped at a twig too slenderly rooted to sustain his weight. It gave way in his hand, and he fell backward down the precipice. His head struck against the less perpendicular part of the rock, whence the body rolled heavily down to the detached fragment, of which mention has heretofore been made. There was no life left in him. With all the passion of hell alive in his heart, he had met the fate that he intended for Fanshawe.
Page 77 - Melmoth, lika that of a father over his children, was more destructive to vice than a sterner sway; and^tEough youth is never without its follies, they have seldom been more harmless than they were here. The students, indeed, ignorant of their own bliss, sometimes wished to hasten the time of their entrance on the business of life ; but they found, in after-years, that many of their happiest remembrances, many of the scenes which they would with least reluctance live over again, referred to the seat...
Page 95 - And let the aspiring youth beware of love, Of the smooth glance beware ; for 'tis too late, When on his heart the torrent softness pours. Then wisdom prostrate lies, and fading fame Dissolves in air away...
Page 214 - Ellen spoke, and, at the same time, a sense of the singular course to which her gratitude had impelled her, caused her beauty to grow brighter and more enchanting with every word. And when, as she concluded, she extended her hand to Fanshawe, to refuse it was like turning from an angel, who would have guided him to heaven. But, had he been capable of making the woman he loved a sacrifice to her own generosity, that act would have rendered him unworthy of her. Yet the struggle was a severe one ere...
Page 93 - He called up in review the years, that, even at his early age, he had spent in solitary study, in conversation with the dead, while he had scorned to mingle with the living world, or to be actuated by any of its motives. He asked himself to what purpose was all this destructive labor, and where was the happiness of superior knowledge.