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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: ness, his heart had ever before been an entire stranger to. Rays of light penetrated into his bosom, that only made its chaotic darkness more horrible. His novel affection connected him in a manner hitherto to unfelt both with the past, and the future. Yet long days elapsed before. the effect of this altered state of mind appeared. The first years of Adelinde's infancy passed on in this solitude, and Coningsby did little but fatigue himself in the day by exercise; and pass the remainder of Ins time either in the enjoyments of thetabje, of the oblivion of sleep. From, ruminations generally painful, he escaped at every return as imph as hfe could. The stores of his memory almost all produced dissatisfaction- He had seen little but of the bad part of mankind: the recollection did not nourish either benevolence or hope. He had seen almost every one sacrifice all to his private passions or private interests. He habituated himself therefore to consider kind looks as the disguises of flattery, or intrigue, or plot; and protests of love, or friendship, or probity, or patriotism, as mere sounds of empty fashion, or form, that fools only could think sincere. When Adelinde became old enough to prattle to him with any mixture of reason, his growing affection for her made him start sometimes at the flashes of new light, that burst for a moment on his ideas, and penetrated Jo the depths of his heart. He began to glance with so- melhing more of interest on the few books, he had brought with him: consisting principally of Travels, or contemporary Memoirs, rarely of the best cast. The latter tinged by the tasteless and undisciplined violence of party politics, did not tend to inspire that moral amelioration of sentiment, Coningsby stood so much in need of. The tempestuous chara...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217917513 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217917518 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 108 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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