The Magdalen, and Other TalesE. Moxon, 1832 - 199 pages |
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Page 70 - ... for her freedom, because she thinks she has a right to it. Besides, she couldn't do it, if she would, for she has spent her earnings to educate her children." This made Mr. Dodge very angry, and some high words passed between them. My friend was afraid to come where I was; but in the course of the day I received a note from him. I supposed they had not come from the south, in the winter, for a pleasure excursion; and now the nature of their business was very plain. Mrs. Bruce came to me and entreated...
Page 186 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...
Page 157 - Do you truly believe that she deposited the jewel in her trunk ?" " I do not like to think ill of any one." " That is not an answer to my question : — Do you believe that she put it there ?" " How else could it have come there ?" " Answer me, Yes or No,
Page 161 - but this is not one of them," added he, holding up the other key, " for she tried this key first, and broke, as you see, the ward in the attempt." " How will you prove that.'" inquired the prosecutor. " By producing the separate part.
Page 158 - And why did you not answer me at once?" — " I do not like that such questions should be put to me," replied the attendant. For a minute or two the advocate was silent. A feeling of disappointment seemed to pervade the whole court ; now and then a half suppressed sigh was heard; and here and there a handkerchief was lifted to an eye, which was no sooner wiped than it was turned again upon Therese with an expression of the most lively commiseration. The maid herself was the only individual who appeared...
Page 44 - They'll miss us," said Rosalie. " What of that?" rejoined Theodore. " Nay," resumed the maid, " we have remained long enough, and at least allow me to go in." "Stop but another minute, dear Rosalie !" imploringly exclaimed the youth. " For what ?" was the maid's reply. "Rosalie," without a pause resumed Theodore, " you used to sit upon my knee, and let me call you wife. Are those times passed for ever ? Dear Rosalie ! will you never let me take you on my knee and call you wife again ?" " When we...
Page 158 - There was a pause and a profound silence. After about a minute had elapsed— " Well ?' said the advocate. Another pause; while in an assembly where hundreds of human hearts were throbbing, not an individual stirred or even appeared to breathe, such was the pitch of intensity to which the suspense of the court was wound up. "Well," said the advocate a second time, "will you answer me?
Page 39 - He returned from college the fifth time ; he found that the woman, which he imagined in a year or two she would become, was surpassed by the woman that she already was ; he remarked the withdrawal of confidence, the limitation of familiarity — the penalty which he must inevitably pay for her maturing — and he felt repelled and chilled, and utterly disheartened by it. For a whole week he never returned to the house. Three days of a second week elapsed, and still he kept away. He had been invited,...
Page 129 - ... frequented the countess's toilet ; but now it was for the sake of Therese, the exquisite grace of whose every movement increased the impression which the first sight of her had made upon him. The varied expression of her countenance, beaming with intelligence such as he had never remarked in a female face before; the modesty, the blandness that sat in it ; the tone of her voice, whose sweetness sent a thrill through him whenever she spoke; her form, the symmetry of whose rich mould seemed to...
Page 149 - He had fully apprised his sister of his intention, who, being a sensible, though a proud woman, implicitly and at once gave in to his views the moment she satisfied herself that it was impossible to divert him from his object— a step of the propriety of which every succeeding interview with Therese still more and more convinced her. Yet was the count uncertain as to the state of Therese's heart, which, as he never saw her alone, he had little opportunity of ascertaining. Seldom she looked at him,...