 | James Cotter Morison - Great Britain - 1878 - 216 pages
...life, which he found in England, had their usual effect; his passion vanished. " My cure," he says, " was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity...and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." The probability, indeed, that he and Mdlle. Curchod would ever see each other again, must have seemed remote... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 336 pages
...and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The... | |
 | Peter Anton - Agriculture - 1880 - 268 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence and...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...'My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1881 - 402 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I •obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassier soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Oeneva, where,... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 884 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lever, I obeyed as.a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." The deliberate misrepresentation of the course of events is proved by the date of the aforesaid letter,... | |
 | Scotland - 1881 - 842 pages
...was but a sorry fellow after all, though he makes the best of it in the tale. " My wound," he adds, " was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." But when he goes on to say that her father died, and that Susan had to come to Geneva and "earn a.... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of C'rassy soon afterwards died; his stipend died with him, his daughter retired to (Geneva, where, by... | |
 | Haussonville (comte d') - Intellectuals - 1882 - 344 pages
...and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the l ady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. If we are to believe Gibbon's story all... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 414 pages
...That strange irony, sometimes unintentional with him, had grown into a habit ; and so he goes on : " My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided into friendship and esteem." Mr. Gibbon's tranquil version of the incident might have proved the authorised... | |
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After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of... 
