Simple tales, Volume 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - Families |
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affection affectionate agony amiable answer Apreece's arrived beauty beheld believe Brighton brother Cler convinced countenance cried Apreece cried Clermont cried Dunbar cried Editha crime daughter dear dear dear dear Jane declared distress Douglas Douglas's dreadful dress emotion endeavour exclaimed eyes fainted fatal secret father fear feelings felt gentleman Gerandi girl glas guilty Hanbury hand happy heard hearing heart hope husband incognita innocent jailor Jane Jane's knew lady length letter live Lodge look madame Altieri Malden marriage married Medway ment mind miss Arundel miss Vernon Morley morning mother murder ness never nunnery field orphan pain pale passion pity pleasure poor prison recollected replied Apreece replied Augusta replied Editha resolved returned Rouen secret seen sigh sir Malcolm smile soon soul stagnant water sure surprise tender thing tion told uncle ward wife wish woman young Zounds
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Page 21 - If he be disposed to forgive you, he will not think so : write affectionately, and he will be glad to believe you sincere; for every one likes to fancy himself the object of affection : those indeed who wish to keep you disunited may impute to you motives of which they are conscious themselves...
Page 62 - So ! — a pretty free-spoken young lady this ; but by George — I like you the better ! and I feel already so much your slave, that I believe I am capable of sacrificing even my habits to you. But where are the children? — my children ! I thought once or twice I should have betrayed myself before the time by blubbering over them.
Page 278 - The pleasures of melancholy are suited only to minds of uncommon susceptibility, — to those persons who may be said to have a sympathetic taste for distress; and from readers of this class, the tale of woe now before us will meet with peculiar acceptance. For ourselves, we own that we have been truly affected by the perusal of it, since it is replete with interest, and possesses pathos enough to affect the heart of the most callous of critical readers.
Page 261 - Yet still, absorb'd in studious care, Neglect to waste one look on me; For then my happy eyes may dare To gaze and dwell uncheck'd on thee. And still in silence sit, nor deign One gentle precious word to say; For silent I may then remain, Nor let my voice my soul betray. This falt'ring voice...
Page 50 - They were right there," replied Clermont with a sarcastic smile. — " To match my paltry acres, she had nothing to offer but beauty, temper, and accomplishments. — To match my want of judgment, and empty thoughtlessness, she had only sound sense, prudence, and reflection. — To match my vicious extravagance and self-indulgence, she had nothing but rigid economy and self-denial. True, Sir, true, we are mated, but not matched ; and yet to this dissimilarity alone do I owe my not being at this moment...
Page 30 - Why then you will never be happy unless you invite your brother members frequently to dinner; and then, out of affection, you U'ill invite the members of one party one day, and out of candour those of the other another day: then, I suppose, I must give a ball to their wives every year ; — and what with the expenses of getting into parliament, and expenses when in it — " « Well— and what then ?" " Why then, adieu to domestic comfort, and younger children s fortunes !" " You see things, Augusta,...
Page 12 - I shall be in the habit of exclaiming, like the woman in the comedy, ' But what will Mrs. Grundy say ? ' — No, no,. we will have no Mrs. Grundys ; or, rather, you shall be my Mrs. Grundy, and I yours.
Page 5 - India art an early age in order to make a fortune ; and he succeeded so well, that he was able very soon to send considerable remittances over to his less prosperous relations in England ; and amongst these, though she was married to a man of landed property, he considered Mrs. Clermont, for he well knew the parsimonious disposition of her husband ; and all the little indulgences which Charles Clermont could boast of in his childhood, and early youth,. were the result of his uncle's bounty to his...
Page 24 - ... by Mr. Morley soon after he had heard an exaggerated account of the poverty of Augusta and her connections, and of the pernicious expenses in which she was involving his nephew. A man who has toiled through the best part of his existence under the burning sun of India in order to obtain wealth, may be allowed to look on wealth as the grand ultimatum in marriage, — and so thought Mr. Morley : — therefore, even more irritated against Clermont than when he wrote last, he replied to his affectionate...
Page 59 - He is an infernal old rascal, for all that," replied Medway. And Charles, forgetting Augusta was present, was darting forward to strike Mr. Medway, when he saw tears in his eyes, and heard him falter...