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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: CHAPTER IIL HEN Ethelinde was alone in the apartment prepared for her, Che found her- ielf too much tired to recall with clearnefs Che tranfadtions of the day. A confufed but acutely painful recollection refted on her mind; the foothing idea of Montgomery's love and protection only tranquillizing in fome degree the tumult cf her fpirits and the anguifh of her heart. Secure that no new evil could for that night befall her brother, fhe courted a tranfient but welcome forgetfulnefs, and at length funk into repofe; which, though not unbroken by the fearful though half retraced images of the preceding day, yet refrefhed and relieved her; and when fhe awoke the next morning, the thought, that fupported by the tender friendfhip of Montgomery, and firm in the confcioufnefs of innocence and reditude, (he mould have refolution enough to endure with .ferenity the bittereft deftiny that might await her, if it affeded not the lives and health of Montgomery, ef her father, of her brother, and of Sir Edward Newenden, for of the latter fhe ever retained the tendereft recoiled ion with the' trueft gratitude. She beheved that any other calamity, fhe could meet, not merely with courage but with chearfulnefs, Never having flattered. herfelf with any fanguine hopes of being, united to; the only man whom fhe ever could love, fhe fancied that the crueL change in her lituation would make no other alteration in regard to him, than as it: called forth all the noblenefs ofvhis nature, it encreafed her attachment without raiting her hopes. Every other eftablifh-. ment but that which fhe might in happier ctrcumftances have, fhared with him, would be not. only indifferent but hateful to her; the had nothing therefore to regret in ths' ccrtainty, as Ihe believed, that fhe fhould. D 3 neves.'never ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217208192 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217208193 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 106 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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