 Before the chest, on her knees, the young man saw with amazement and horror the figure of his wife. In an instant he crossed the interval between them, bereft of utterance. The lid of the chest stood open, exposing, amid their perfumed napkins, its treasure...  Poor Richard - Page 208by Henry James - 1885Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1868 - 784 pages
...the chest stood open, exposing, amid their perfumed napkins, its treasure of stuffs and jewels. Viola had fallen backward from a kneeling posture, with...parted in entreaty, in dismay, in agony ; and on her bloodless brow and cheeks there glowed the marks of ten hideous wounds from two vengeful ghostly hands.... | |
 | American essays - 1868 - 798 pages
...the chest stood open, exposing, amid their perfumed napkins, its treasure of stuffs and jewels. Viola had fallen backward from a kneeling posture, with...was the stiffness of death, and on her face, in the fadinglight of the sun, the terror of some.thing more than death. Her lips were parted in entreaty,... | |
 | Henry James - American fiction - 1875 - 510 pages
...the chest stood open, exposing, amid their perfumed napkins, its treasure of stuffs and jewels. Viola had fallen backward from a kneeling posture, with...parted in entreaty, in dismay, in agony; and on her bloodless brow and cheeks there glowed the marks of ten hideous wounds from two vengeful ghostly hands.... | |
 | Universalism - 1884 - 658 pages
...her upstairs in the dim and dusky attic, crouched beside the huge chest, whose lid is open. She has " fallen backward from a kneeling posture, with one...and the other pressed to her heart." On her limbs he perceives the stiffness of death, and on her face.where the fading light of the sun strikes it through... | |
 | Theology - 1884 - 354 pages
...her upstairs in the dim and dusky attic, crouched beside the huge chest, whose lid is open. She has " fallen backward from a kneeling posture, with one...and the other pressed to her heart." On her limbs he perceives the stiffness of death, and on her face.where the fading light of the sun strikes it through... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 562 pages
...the chest stood open, exposing, amid their perfumed napkins, its treasure of stuffs and jewels. Viola had fallen backward from a kneeling posture, with...parted in entreaty, in dismay, in agony; and on her bloodless brow and cheeks there glowed the marks of ten hideous wounds from two vengeful ghostly hands.... | |
 | Henry James - Fiction - 1903 - 506 pages
...the chest stood open, exposing, amid their perfumed napkins, its treasure of stuffs and jewels. Viola had fallen backward from a kneeling posture, with...parted in entreaty, in dismay, in agony ; and on her bloodless brow and cheeks there glowed the marks of ten hideous wounds from two vengeful ghostly hands.... | |
 | Henry James - American fiction - 1917 - 506 pages
...chest stood open, exposing, amid their perfumed napkins, its treasure of stuff's and jewels. Viola had fallen backward from a kneeling posture, with one hand supporting her oil the floor and the other pressed to her heart. On her limbs was the stiffness of death, and on her... | |
 | American essays - 1868 - 798 pages
...napkins, its treasure of stuffs and jewels. Viola had fallen backward from a kneeling posture, witli one hand supporting her on the floor and the other...parted in entreaty, in dismay, in agony ; and on her bloodless brow and cheeks there glowed the marks of ten hideous wounds from two vengeful ghostly hands.... | |
 | Henry James - Fiction - 2001 - 372 pages
...exposing, amid their perfumed napkins, its treasure of stuffs and jewels. Viola had fallen backwards from a kneeling posture, with one hand supporting...parted in entreaty, in dismay, in agony; and on her bloodless brow and cheeks there glowed the marks of ten hideous wounds from two vengeful ghostly hands.... | |
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