Thaddeus of Warsaw, Band 4

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806

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Seite 203 - Fearing that he had set his heart on the possession of a treasure totally out of his reach, he knew not how high had been his hope, until he felt the depth of his disappointment. Taking up his hat, which lay on the grass, with a countenance from which every gleam of joy was banished, he bowed respectfully, and in a lowered tone continued — " The dependent situation in which I appeared at Lady Dundas's being ever before my eyes, I was not so absurd as to suppose that any lady could then notice me...
Seite 201 - Mary knew not how to receive this address. The position in which he uttered it, his countenance, when she turned to answer him, were both demonstrative of something less equivocal than his speech. He was still grasping the drapery of her cloak ; and his eyes, from which the wind blew back his fine hair, were beaming upon her, full of that piercing tenderness which at once dissolves and seizes the soul. She passed her hand over her eyes. Her soul was in tumults. She too fondly wished to believe that...
Seite 204 - Since you will not allow me an individual distinction in having attracted your benevolence, though 1 am to ascribe it all to a charity as diffused as effective; yet I must ever acknowledge, with the deepest gratitude, that I owe my present home and happiness to Miss Beaufort. Farther than this, I shall not — I dare not, presume." These words shifted all the count's anguish to Mary's breast. She perceived the offended delicacy which actuated every syllable as they fell : and fearful of having lost...
Seite 192 - Sir Robert, you have a guest in this house you little expect. I forbade Miss Beaufort saying a word, because, as we are told that ' the first tellers of unwelcome news have but a losing office,' vice versa, I hoped for a gaining one; therefore preserved such a profitable piece of intelligence for my own promulgation. Indeed, I doubt whether it will not intoxicate some folks here," — added she, glancing archly on Pembroke, who looked suddenly round at this whimsical declaration.

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