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"The château no, Miss Beverly, you are more than generous, but this cannot be. The château is yours I would rather it belonged to you than to any one on earth, even myself and yours it must remain." "I bought it for you. It will break my heart if you refuse," said Virginia, with tears in her voice. The sound of her pain smote him with anguish.
Until my death shall be avenged my unquiet spirit lingers here. Listen.” Speechless, motionless was the statesman; and the mournful apparition thus slowly and distinctly continued: “Four years ago I travelled with one I trusted. We lodged here. That night my comrade murdered me. He plunged a dagger into my heart while I slept. He covered the wound with a plaster. He feigned to mourn my death.
If she was proud of me, I was so proud of her that I carried my head high as I emerged from the dark cedars and shut the Cutters’ gate softly behind me. Her warm, sweet face, her kind arms, and the true heart in her; she was, oh, she was still my Ántonia!
I am loth to finish this description, because it seems to me scarcely begun; I am unwilling to continue it, because every word seems to show me more clearly those recesses of my heart, which I would have hidden even from myself.
I have the semblance of a beast, but Katerina Ivanovna, my spouse, is a person of education and an officer's daughter. Granted, granted, I am a scoundrel, but she is a woman of a noble heart, full of sentiments, refined by education. And yet... oh, if only she felt for me! Honoured sir, honoured sir, you know every man ought to have at least one place where people feel for him!
"Never; I have given my heart to your daughter, and I cannot take back the gift. She has accepted it, and she cannot return it." "And what would you have her do?" Lady Desmond asked, with anger and almost passion in her voice. "Wait as I must wait," said Herbert. "That will be her duty, as I believe it will also be her wish."
Metaphysic enough, indeed, to be learnt there, could we but enter into the heart of even the most brutish negro slave who ever was brought down the Nile out of the desert by Nubian merchants, to build piers and docks in whose commerce he did not share, temples whose worship he did not comprehend, libraries and theatres whose learning and civilisation were to him as much a sealed book as they were to his countryman, and fellow-slave, and only friend, the ape.
Oh, I wish you had seen him, Doctor, when he heard his native tongue. He threw down his pen, jumped up like a boy, and took me by the hand, and shook it with all his might. 'Oh, said he, 'I haven't heard that for years; the sound of it does my heart good. You must come again and see me after the steamer has left for England. What can I do for you?
But pray tell me, hath anything happened to the serjeant?" "O, madam!" cries she, "I have the greatest reason to fear I shall lose him. The doctor hath almost given him over he says he hath scarce any hopes. O, madam! that evening that the fatal quarrel happened between us my dear captain took it so to heart that he sat up all night and drank a whole bottle of brandy.
This feeling suddenly became alive in her, in spite of a joy in her heart different from that which she had ever known; in defiance of the fact that now that they were together once more, what would she not do to prevent their being driven apart again! "After abandoning me for five years, is that all you have to say to me, Shiel? After I have suffered before the world "
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