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Updated: May 5, 2025
Was the heaven the tender, blue, loving heaven, in whose far regions I had dreamed was Isora's home, and had, therefore, grown better and happier when I gazed upon it to be nothing but cloud and air? and had the love which had seemed so immortal, and so springing from that which had not blent itself with mortality, been but a gross lamp fed only by the properties of a brute nature, and placed in a dark cell of clay, to glimmer, to burn, and to expire with the frail walls which it had illumined?
"I am an old friend of the family, and I shall not be an unwelcome intruder on the sickroom of the sufferer." "Intruder, sir, bless you, the poor gentleman is quite speechless and insensible." At hearing this I could refrain no longer. Isora's disconsolate, solitary, destitute condition broke irresistibly upon me, and all scruple of more delicate and formal nature vanished at once.
At that moment the sound of your horse's hoofs was heard. Isora's eyes brightened and her mien grew firm. "He comes," she said, "and he will protect me!" "Hark!" I said, sinking my voice, and, as my drawn sword flashed in one hand, the other grasped her arm with a savage force, "hark, woman!" Morton, you have often praised, my uncle has often jested at, the womanish softness of my face.
He had entered Isora's room; and the woman, in answer to my urgent inquiries, added that she had heard his voice raised to a loud and harsh key in the apartment; he had stayed there about a quarter of an hour, and had then hurried out, seemingly in great disorder and agitation. "What description of man was he?" I asked.
Though I was in reality awed even to terror by learning from Isora's lip so just a cause for her forebodings, though I shuddered with a horror surpassing even my wrath, when I heard a threat so breathing of deadly and determined passions, yet I concealed my emotions, and only thought of cheering and comforting Isora.
Isora's tongue seemed literally to cleave to her mouth; at last with a violent effort, she muttered, "I have told you, Morton, that I am bound by oath not to divulge this secret; nor may I breathe a single syllable calculated to do so, if I deny one name, you may question me on more, and, therefore, to deny one is a breach of my oath.
That some objections existed to this mediatory plan was true enough: those objections related to Isora rather than to myself, and she was the first, on my hinting at the proposal, to overcome its difficulties. The leading feature in Isora's character was generosity; and, in truth, I know not a quality more dangerous either to man or woman.
I dashed through the inebriated revellers who obstructed your path, and reached my own lodging, which was close at hand; for the same day on which I learned Isora's change of residence I changed my own in order to be near it. Did I feel joy for my escape? No: I could have gnawed the very flesh from my bones in the agony of my shame.
As the appointed day drew near, Isora's despondency seemed to vanish, and she listened, with her usual eagerness in whatever interested me, to my Continental schemes of enterprise. I resolved that our second wedding, though public, should be modest and unostentatious, suitable rather to our fortunes than our birth. St.
I stood in the same room with Isora and yourself: ye lay in sleep; Isora's face O God! I know no more no more of that night of horror save that I fled from the house reeking with blood, a murderer, and the murderer of Isora! Then came a long, long dream.
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