Bella Donna; or, the Cross Before the Name, by Gilbert Dyce
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ISBN13: 9780217182843
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 23 CHAPTER III. CEOSS PURPOSES. There they sit, the soldier and the lady who is on the parish, side by side, and the poor ousted curate looking on from across the dining-room table. By the college of surgeons of the art of love, this sense of ejectment, this eviction, and feoffment to a new tenant is held to be the most acute suffering, and the most difficult of treatment. On one side of him sits a girl of the house, Mary Franklyn, on whom he has been playing a sort of ghastly animation and strained gaiety; so that this undeveloped creature, some sixteen or seventeen years old only, thinks her fascinations have on a sudden prematurely burst out, and that she is already skilful with hergun. Some say that fine plump ecclesiastical bird, the curate of whatever degree and stipend, has ever a strange fascination for the female fowler. And this young country-house child could not but feel a pardonable pride at the thought of ensnaring her clergyman, which was pleasant sport enough. Sweeter still, however, to the female breast is that sense of helping one's self to a neighbour's property. But under Mr. Wells' spasmodic merriment was an utter weight of what might be called a spurious despair; for the crisis was not yet serious enough for the presence of the genuine passion. And at every fresh symptom of intimacy opposite, a hand seemed to gripe his heart with a sudden clutch which made him sink and collapse interiorly; yet that Miss Jenny Bell, still glowing with her electric light, was not cruel or barbarous. Often she turned to him with a look of encouragement; very often she appealed to him, and took him in graciously into her talk; yet these are but poor plasters to one with the clergyman's malady, which renders its victim marvellouslyquick-sighted, and had turne...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217182843 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217182844 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 142 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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