man, they could discover not the least sign of feeling on his cool but restless face. "Even! red w...
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I was stupefied with grief. I left the grounds by the little gate of the lower terrace and went to ...
he appeared to listen to his guide, answering him by gestures or monosyllables; but imperceptibly h...
continued, showing a letter that was on the mantelshelf. "He is now my adopted son, and that is all...
"Yes," I replied, "for I would give eternity for a day of happiness, and you--" "I!" she said haug...
tearful eyes, complaining that she had not slept. "What troubles you?" I said. "I fear that my exc...
yield, condemned to live a lie in her heart, yet delightful in outward appearance--for these Englis...
Henriette depicted this moral malady and did her infinite harm. "At the cost of so many treasures l...
they. It is the chain of the galley-slave; it leaves an ineffaceable brand upon the soul, filling i...
unconcern of a child who looks every one in the face, and now dropped her eyes; her movements were ...
through the foliage. Seized with compassion for the shipwreck of our lives she turned back to memor...
her glance turned to me beneath her eyelids, expressing the joy of a woman who finds the mere passi...
flowing through a valley; the rains, the brooks, the torrents hie to it, the trees fall upon its su...
underbrush with the rapidity of an arrow. "Drive on quickly to Clochegourde," cried the countess, t...
without passing any one who recognized me. "Jacques is better," were the first words he said to me....