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Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1903 edition. Auszug: ...of all if you fear treachery. PRINZIVALLE It is not for myself that I fear, but for you. VANNA I count not these things as more than their lives. PRINZIVALLE That is well--you are right. Come and rest a little. This is a soldiers couch, rough and hard, narrow as the grave, and little worthy of you. Rest here, upon these skins of aurochs and of great rams that do not know yet how soft and precious a thing a womans body is. Place beneath your head this gentler cushion--it is a lynxs skin, given me by an African king on a night of victory. vanna sits, closely wrapped in her cloak. The brightness of the lamp falls in your eyes--shall I remove it? VANNA It matters little. PRINZIVALLE Kneels at foot of couch and seizes her hand. Giovanna vanna raises her head, startled, and looks at him. Oh, Vanna--my Vanna Yes, I, too, have been accustomed so to call you; but now I have scarce strength to speak the name. It has been so long a time shut a prisoner in my heart that it can no more issue without rending its prison. Nay, it is my heart--I have no other Each of its syllables holds my whole life; when I speak them, it is my life that flows away. It was familiar to me; I thought I knew it; I was no longer afraid of it when I had so often said it. For years past, every hour of every day, I have repeated it as some mighty word of love, some spell that one must some day have courage to pronounce at last, were it but once, in the presence of her whom it summoned in vain.... I believed that my hps had taken the shape of it, that at the supreme moment they would know how to say it with such sweetness and respect, with so humble and profound a meekness, that she who heard it would understand all the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781151709882 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151709883 |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 54 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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