Madame Roland
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ISBN13: 9780217013406
Paperback|9780217013406
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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: of ion. Chapter III. Maidenhood. A SOUL so active, so imaginative, and Bo full of feeling as that of Jane, could not long slumber unconscious of the emotion of love. In the unaffected and touching narrative which she gives of her own character, in the Journal which she subsequently wrote in the gloom of a prison, she alludes to the first rising of that mysterious passion in her bosom. With that frankness which ever marked her character, she describes the strange fluttering of her heart, the embarrassment, the attraction, and the instinctive diffidence she experienced when in the presence of a young man who had, all unconsciously, interested her affections. It seems that there was a youthful painter named Tabo- ral, of pale, and pensive, and intellectual countenance?an artist with soul-inspired enthusiasm beaming from his eye?who occasionally called upon her father. Jane had just been reading the Heloise of Rousseau, that gushing fount' f sentimentality. Her young heart58 iVi .i u., is, Kt/fctv M amber of niton. uxk fire. His features mingled insensibly in Qer dreamings and her visions, and dwelt, a wel- oome guest, in her castles in the air. The diffident young man, with all the sensitiveness of genius, could not speak to the daughter, of whose accomplishments the father was so just- iy proud, without blushing like a girl. When Jane heard him in the shop, she always contrived to make some errand to go in. There was a pencil or something else to be sought for. But the moment she was in the presence of Taboral, instinctive embarrassment drove bear away, and she retired more rapidly than she entered, and with a palpitating heart ran to hide herself in her little chamber. This emotion, however, was fleeting and transient, and soon forgotten. Indeed, highly imaginati...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217013406 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217013406 |
| Weight | 0.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 128 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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