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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: NINETEENTH JUBILEE. Schofpe's Office Of Comforter. ? Arcadia. ? Bouverot's Portrait-painting. 82. CYCLE. OW that Albano lived without love or hope; now that he had seen the polar-star of his life fall like a shooting-star into a wilderness still as death; now that every one of his actions and every recollection darted out a scorpion-sting, and he sent back Liana's letters, forsook Lilar, the house of the Doctor, the Lector, Liana's relatives, and the pious father; now that he directed his face, gradually growing pale, only to books and stars; men who know no higher sorrow than selfish sorrow must needs imagine that nothing weighs upon his bosom but the ruins and rubbish of the shattered air-castles of his hope and youthful love. But he was more nobly unhappy and disconsolate: he was so, because he had for the first time made a human creature and the best of beings miserable, ? his beloved blind Into this abyss of his heart all neighboring fountains of sorrow flowed together. The smallest gayly-painted shards of his urn of fortune were as if shattered afresh, when he heard from day to day that the poor girl, although daily stationed in the bath-house before the healing fountains, was nevertheless brought back each time without a ray of lightor hope, and that she now feared nothing more, lamented nothing more on this robbers' earth, than that death might perhaps close her eyes before they had seen her mother again. O, the wound of conscience is no scar, and time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps it open with his scythe Albano called back to remembrance Liana's bitter entreaty for indulgence; and then it was no consolation to him, that, during that eclipse of the sun, he had not wished to sacrifice her eyes, but only her heart. In the burning-glass and ma...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217138789 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217138780 |
| Weight | 0.95 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 In |
| List Price | $23.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 292 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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