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Page 40
... leave her for a few days . Never was news so welcome to Claudia . The absence of the signor , would ( she thought ) , afford her leisure to devise some plan to rid herself both of him and De Laney , who was now more odious to her than ...
... leave her for a few days . Never was news so welcome to Claudia . The absence of the signor , would ( she thought ) , afford her leisure to devise some plan to rid herself both of him and De Laney , who was now more odious to her than ...
Page 40
... leave her for a few days . Never was news so welcome to Claudia . The absence of the signor , would ( she thought ) , afford her leisure to devise some plan to rid herself both of him and De Laney , who was now more odious to her than ...
... leave her for a few days . Never was news so welcome to Claudia . The absence of the signor , would ( she thought ) , afford her leisure to devise some plan to rid herself both of him and De Laney , who was now more odious to her than ...
Page 42
... lovely as ever , and she deter- mined to leave Rome , and seek at Naples for some lover , who was rich and weak enough to support her in the style to which she had latterly been ac- customed . CHAP . III . SHE had not been many days 42.
... lovely as ever , and she deter- mined to leave Rome , and seek at Naples for some lover , who was rich and weak enough to support her in the style to which she had latterly been ac- customed . CHAP . III . SHE had not been many days 42.
Page 105
... leave my house , and seek pro- tection from the beggar whom you so insolently defend . ' " My son waited not to hear this cruel mandate a second time repeated ; with a heart bursting with grief and in- dignation , he quitted the house ...
... leave my house , and seek pro- tection from the beggar whom you so insolently defend . ' " My son waited not to hear this cruel mandate a second time repeated ; with a heart bursting with grief and in- dignation , he quitted the house ...
Page 122
... leave , he invoked the choicest blessings of heaven . The natural kind- ness of D'Rosonio's heart led him , when the young man more frequent in his was gone , to be visits than he had before been to Schedoni's , but these visits , which ...
... leave , he invoked the choicest blessings of heaven . The natural kind- ness of D'Rosonio's heart led him , when the young man more frequent in his was gone , to be visits than he had before been to Schedoni's , but these visits , which ...
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affection Albertina Alberto Anselmo appeared aunt beauty beheld beloved bestow Bianca birth bosom Camillo castle cause child Clara Claudia Clementina convent Corinna Count D'Rosonio countenance countess cried Montalva cried the count daugh daughter dear death Di Soranzo Diana Douglas distress Don Carlos Don Juan dorno duke Ellen endeavoured exclaimed eyes father favour fear feel Fernando Fiametta fortune friendship gave girl grief guilt hand happiness heart Heaven honour hope infant Isabel knew lady abbess Laney Laura Lauretta lord marchioness Maria marquis marriage marry ment mind minstrel Montoni mother Naples ness never noble orphan parents passion peace pleasure poor possessed promise ranzo received regret rendered replied Rome Santenos signor cried Signora Sforza soon Soranzo Spain spirits Stephano suffer sylph talva tears temper Teresa thank thee thou art thought tion turbed unhappy Valeria Victoria Viola vowed wife wish woman wretched young
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Page 114 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
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Page 108 - Mon. 22. — My brother and I set out for Bath, on a very extraordinary occasion. Some time since Mr. Smyth, a Clergyman, whose labours God had greatly blessed in the north of Ireland, brought his wife over to Bath, who had been for some time in a declining state of health. I desired him to preach every Sunday evening in our chapel, while he remained there. But as soon as I was gone, Mr.
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