United States or Antigua and Barbuda ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
At the expiration of that time, the avails were to be paid to Roseton, of Pont-Noir, provided but one of that name should exist; if more were living, the estate was to remain in abeyance until such a condition should be reached.
When the ices came in, the elder Roseton was carried out; and the heir of Pont-Noir, having seen the remains properly bestowed in a place of safety, and a special inquest held, finished the night with the counsellors in the enjoyment of a tempered hilarity, and rose next morning the possessor of wealth so boundless, so unspeakable, that my brain reels as I endeavor to grasp at even its outlying fragments.
About a year previous to this, in the dead of night, a mysterious stranger solicited audience of the master of Pont-Noir. Attended by the entire force of the house in complete armor, Roseton granted the interview. The stranger advanced within easy gun-shot, and said: 'The great house of Boscobello, Bolaro and Company is in imminent peril.
These acceptances constitute the entire loan and discount line of thirty-eight of the Banks of this city, for they have latterly made it a rule to take nothing else. A meaning glance shot from the stranger's eye as he delivered this fearful announcement, but Roseton remained firm, though a cold shiver passed through the frames of his domestics, who were aware how vitally he was interested.
Without you, life were indeed a dreary void; and without you, I should be dreadfully bored of a morning. 'Ah, Percy, murmured the fair listener, 'so could I hear you talk forever. 'Bella, whispered Roseton, in her fairy ear, 'could you prepare your mind to entertain the idea of flight with me? 'To Staten Island? cried she, jumping up and clapping her hands. 'Oh, let's go to Staten Island!
We might even then have retraced our steps, and been happy. 'I was waiting at the dock for the news of the Heenan prize-fight, Bella, gasped Roseton, turning away to conceal his emotion, and to assuage the tears that fell from his manly eyes. It is a mournful sight, a strong man, in the morning of life, weeping; but Roseton's agony might well excuse it.
Here, reclining in dreamful ease, and indulging in the perpetual warmth by which the bath confessed the power of unseen caloric agency, Roseton was wont ever to sport with delicious memories, now with rapturous hopes, and at times to compose those elegant sonnets for the New York weekly newspapers, for each one of which a thousand dollars was joyfully given by the delighted proprietors to the poor of the city.
Roseton leaned over her shoulder, and placed in her lap a miniature Andrews and Stoddard's Lexicon, open at the eight hundredth page. 'You take? he said: 'Mundus, the World. 'Ah, Percy, sighed Bella, 'why do you thus unnecessarily fatigue me?
I sometimes fear that my poor frame will sink under the agonies I endure. Roseton raised the volume from the floor. 'I am told, said he, 'that this is a very ingenious work, and that no gentleman's library is complete without it; but I never read. My days, my nights, are filled, Bella, with thoughts of you.
My results therefore are maimed and imperfect, but I trust they will show that I have not exaggerated the difficulty of the process of reduction and estimation. It was upon the last investment that Roseton chiefly drew for his expenses.
Word Of The Day