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In truth ( replied the count ) , you owe me no obligation , what I did arose from actual selfishness . " Selfishness , Fernando ! what , at the hazard of your own life to preserve mine ? how can you prove that there was any thing ...
In truth ( replied the count ) , you owe me no obligation , what I did arose from actual selfishness . " Selfishness , Fernando ! what , at the hazard of your own life to preserve mine ? how can you prove that there was any thing ...
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“ Very easily ( cried the count ) , had I abandoned you io your fate , I should never have known a tranquil moment ; by sharing it , I had at least a chance of preserving you , and my life is not so very precious to me , that I should ...
“ Very easily ( cried the count ) , had I abandoned you io your fate , I should never have known a tranquil moment ; by sharing it , I had at least a chance of preserving you , and my life is not so very precious to me , that I should ...
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... yet vibrated on her ear , and she dared not suffer her thoughts , to dwell upon her lover ; yet vainly did she try to recal them , and never till this moment was she sensible how wholly , how intirely her heart was the count's .
... yet vibrated on her ear , and she dared not suffer her thoughts , to dwell upon her lover ; yet vainly did she try to recal them , and never till this moment was she sensible how wholly , how intirely her heart was the count's .
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The task of writing to the count , and of explaining to him her reasons for resigning him , was the severest she had ever known ; but a father's curse could she resolve to incur that ? impos sible , and to preserve herself from this ...
The task of writing to the count , and of explaining to him her reasons for resigning him , was the severest she had ever known ; but a father's curse could she resolve to incur that ? impos sible , and to preserve herself from this ...
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The count knew too well what the pangs of unsuccessful love were , to attempt to alleviate them by common place consolations ; he endeavoured by a series of the most delicate and friendly attentions to ( in some measure ) console his ...
The count knew too well what the pangs of unsuccessful love were , to attempt to alleviate them by common place consolations ; he endeavoured by a series of the most delicate and friendly attentions to ( in some measure ) console his ...
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| Title | Montalva, or, Annals of guilt Montalva, or, Annals of guilt, Ann Mary Hamilton |
| Author | Ann Mary Hamilton |
| Published | 1811 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Jul 2006 |
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