Madeline. Adeline Mowbray. Simple tales. The black velvet pelisse. The death-bed. The fashionable wife. The robber. The mother and son. Love and duty. The soldier's return. The brother and sister. The revenge. The uncle and nephew. Murder will out. The orphan. The father and daughter. Happy faces

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Crissy & Markley, 1841

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Sida 332 - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it ; he is so above me ! In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Sida 297 - ... they had no relief but what the priest from time to time procured them. At length, and as a great favour, they were removed to a place less damp, to which there was a little window ; but the window was stopped, and the fumes of the charcoal were as noxious here as in the cavern they had left.
Sida 420 - ... native place. Even in her happiest days she never entered its solemn shade without feeling a sensation of fearful awe ; but now that she entered it, leafless as it was, a wandering wretched outcast, a mother without the sacred name of wife and bearing in her arms the pledge of her infamy, her knees smote each other, and shuddering as if danger were before her, she audibly implored the protection of Heaven. At this instant, she heard a noise, and casting a startled glance into the obscurity before...
Sida 314 - Much other discourse of the same kind he repeated. And De la Comble deposed that Belestre had shown her great sums of money and a beautiful pearl necklace ; and when she asked him where he got all this, he answered that he had won it at play. These and many other circumstances related by this woman confirmed his guilt beyond a doubt. In his pocket were found a Gazette of Holland, in which he had (it was supposed) caused it to be inserted that the men who had been guilty...
Sida 420 - ... it was impossible for her to reach her long-forsaken home before daybreak. Still she was resolved to go on : — to pass another day in suspense concerning her father, and her future hopes of his pardon, was more formidable to her than the terrors of undertaking a lonely and painful walk. Perhaps, too, Agnes was not sorry to have a tale of hardship to narrate on her arrival at the house of her nurse, whom she meant to employ as mediator between her and her offended parent. His...
Sida 440 - But it is not to be expected that society should open its arms to receive its prodigal children till they have undergone a long and painful probation, — till they have practised the virtues of self-denial, patience, fortitude, and industry. And she whose penitence is not the mere result of wounded pride and caprice, will be capable of exerting all these virtues, in order to regain some portion of the esteem she has lost. What will difficulties and mortifications be to her?
Sida 297 - The noisome damps, the want of proper food and of fresh fair, overcame the tender frame of the poor child ; and then it was that the distraction and despair of the mother was at its height. In the middle of a rigorous winter they were in a cavern where no air could enter, and where the damps only lined the wall ; a little charcoal in an earthen pot was all the fire they had, and the smoke was so offensive and dangerous that it increased rather than diminished their sufferings. In this dismal place...
Sida 276 - Bentley) was to deviate from the strict line of justice, by his partiality to the side of mercy, appears from the anecdote of the thief, who robbed him of his plate, and was seized and brought before him with the very articles upon him. The natural process in this man's case, pointed out the road to prison. My grandfather's process was more summary, but not quite so legal.
Sida 133 - ... she shone so brightly, if I may use the expression, in the graceful awfulness of virtue, that I gazed with delight, and somewhat of apprehension lest this fair perfection should suddenly take flight to her native skies, toward which her fine eyes were occasionally turned.
Sida 443 - Agnes; for even the most rigid hearts were softened in favour of Agnes, when they beheld the ravages grief had made in her form, and gazed on her countenance, which spoke in forcible language the sadness yet resignation of her mind.

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