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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...took, they still returned to the clue that was suggested by the letter of Mademoiselle Basault. When in the heat of her anger, and the excitement of her disappointment, she had first surveyed De Mara's conduct, she could find no solution to the riddle but that of his dereliction of faith, and her own desertion in favour of a more fortunate rival. This mode of accounting for the events that had happened was now happily set aside, and not all her __woman's wit could furnish her with a more just or a more probable motive for what had taken place, than that which was insinuated by her fair correspondent--rival, now no longer. In obedience to this feeling, the course she inclined to_adopt again changed its aspect, and she found in her present view of the matter an additional incentive to act according to the wish of her brother, by holding the Count at bay till she had taken full revenge upon him for the means he had pursued to try her affections. But with these sentiments in her mind, she once more found herself in the same difliculty that had presented itself when her thoughts were of a more gloomy cast, and she was looking round to see who should abet her in enabling her to satiate the cravings of her anger and despair. In that instance, she had, by a compulsion of the mind, brought herself to the resolution that Albert should be that agent; but, in the present position of the affair, his aid could be of no avail. There was nothing in the presence of her brother calculated to alarm the jealous fears of the Count, and it could only be by making that nobleman believe that his place in her heart was likely to be supplied, that she could expect to afford him a proportionate castigation for the pain he had so gratuitously inflicted...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153190206 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153190206 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 94 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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