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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: he will recoil from you with aversion, he will reject you with contempt. Knowing my opinion of you, Lady Olivia, you will not choose to remain in this house; nor can I desire for my guest one, whom I can no longer, in private or in public, make my companion. Adieu. Leonora L . VOL. II. your of tli: . wife, By: not c pass, sion.; love cap;i he v had so c alone forbids it: no, a stronger voice than mine is heard?an injured wife reclaims you. What a letter have I just received .... ?from .... Leonora She tells me that she no longer desires for her guest one, whom she cannot, in public or private, make her companion.?Oh, Leonora, it was sufficient to banish me from your heart She tells me not only that I have for ever forfeited her confidence, her esteem, her affection j but that I shall soon be your aversion and contempt. Oh cruel, cruel words But I submit?I have deserved it all?I have robbed her of a heart above all price. Leonora, why did you not reproach me more bitterly ? I desire, I implore to be crushed, to be annihilated by your vengeance Most admirable, most virtuous, most estimable of women, best of wives, I havewith sacrilegious love profaned a soul consecrated to you and conjugal virtue. I acknowledge my crime; trample upon me as you will, I am humbled hi the dust. More than all your bitterest reproaches do I feel the remorse of having for a moment interrupted such serenity of happiness. Oh, why did you persuade me, L, and why did I believe that Leonora was calm and free from all suspicion ? How could I believe that any woman, whom you had ever loved, could remain blind to your inconstancy, or feel secure indifference ? Happy woman in you to love is not a crime; you may glory in your passion, whilst I must hide mine from every human eye, d...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217012744 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217012744 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 130 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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