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... Selfishness , Fernando ! what , at the hazard of your own life to preserve mine ? how can you prove that there was any thing selfish in such an act ? " said Montalva . VOL . 1 . B " Very easily ( cried the count ) , had MONTALVA, &c. ...
... Selfishness , Fernando ! what , at the hazard of your own life to preserve mine ? how can you prove that there was any thing selfish in such an act ? " said Montalva . VOL . 1 . B " Very easily ( cried the count ) , had MONTALVA, &c. ...
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... thing should happen to prevent it . Immediately on the duke's proposals , signor D'Albici had forbid D'Rosonio his house , and he carefully charged his domestics to bring him every letter that came ; he also observed with the greatest ...
... thing should happen to prevent it . Immediately on the duke's proposals , signor D'Albici had forbid D'Rosonio his house , and he carefully charged his domestics to bring him every letter that came ; he also observed with the greatest ...
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... thing I should have avowed . Beauty is the gift of all others which our sex most wish to be thought possessed of it , nor is there any woman , who would chuse to own herself desti- tute of all pretensions to it , if she was conscious ...
... thing I should have avowed . Beauty is the gift of all others which our sex most wish to be thought possessed of it , nor is there any woman , who would chuse to own herself desti- tute of all pretensions to it , if she was conscious ...
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... thing . Equally artful and wicked , she determined to proceed with caution , and the frequency of assassinations at Rome , made her judge that that was the safest way of getting rid of the un- happy Montoni ; could she but engage De ...
... thing . Equally artful and wicked , she determined to proceed with caution , and the frequency of assassinations at Rome , made her judge that that was the safest way of getting rid of the un- happy Montoni ; could she but engage De ...
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... thing most sacred , that if thou dost , my vengeance shall pursue thee ; thou shalt expiate thy crime in torments , of which thou canst not conceive an idea ; for thy own sake then , respect the life of a man , whose generosity raised ...
... thing most sacred , that if thou dost , my vengeance shall pursue thee ; thou shalt expiate thy crime in torments , of which thou canst not conceive an idea ; for thy own sake then , respect the life of a man , whose generosity raised ...
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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 crime D'Ro 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 thought tion turbed unhappy Valeria Victoria Viola vowed wife wish woman wretched young
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