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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 III. Married, not match'd, the faithful wife, Doom'd to an uncongenial life Of state and terrors, Tho' slighted, scorn'd, still fondly loves, In secret mourns, but ne'er reproves Her husband's errors. Anxious as he was to renew his conversa- tion with the unfortunate Cecil, Dudley became every moment more and more convinced that there would be great difficulty in obtaining an interview. Any formal demand of this nature, with the avowed purpose of delivering to him the message from his deceased father, he had good reason to believe would be evaded, under plea of the youth's ill health, or peremptorily rejected without explanation; nay, he was possessed with a suspicion that their previous colloquy had been discovered, and that his movements were already watched; for, though he had repeatedly passed the tower by which he had ascended, he had invariably found a servant stationed at the entrance. From what he had observed of Sir Lionel's character, he had little reason to believe that he would scruple at the employment of open violence, either against himself or Cecil, if circumstances rendered it necessary; nor was he without a deep misgiving, both as to his means of obtaining information, and as to his defeating his opponents by the instrumentality of those mysterious and unhallowed agents, with whom he appeared to be associated. The occurrences in the abbey church, affording such vehement presumption of his having formed some supernatural alliance, had left a profound impression upon bis mind; and he felt that he was in the hands of a man whose visible power, formidable as it was, was perhaps much less to be dreaded than his occult and guilty machinations with unseen agents. Still, however, he had not the smallest intention of flinching from that which he ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217374774 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217374778 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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