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Now, in his turn, offended and surprised, The knight in silence from her side withdrew; With pain she marked it, but her pain disguised, And heedless seemed her journey to pursue, Nor backward deigned to him one anxious view, As oft she wished.
Now, in his turn, offended and surprised, The knight in silence from her side withdrew; With pain she marked it, but her pain disguised, And heedless seemed her journey to pursu...
2. CHAPTER II.Poured in soft dalliance at a lady’s feet, In fondest rapture he appeared to lie.... Their words she heard not—words had ne’er exprest What well her sickening fancy could supply...
3. CHAPTER III.Has thy heart sickened with deferred hope? Or felt th’ impatient anguish of suspense? Or hast thou tasted of the bitter cup Which Disappointment’s withered hands dispense? Thou...
4. CHAPTER IV.Emmeline saw his and Pelham’s name in the papers among those who had crossed the water to Calais; but she heard no more. This strange silence seemed to confirm her husband’s hos...
5. CHAPTER IV.Mercy, dear Lord, saide he, what grace is this That thou hast shewed to me, sinfull wight, To send thine angell from her bowre of bliss To comfort me in my distressed plight? An...
6. CHAPTER VI.A FEW days after the scene recorded in the last chapter, when Fitzhenry appeared better than he had yet done since his illness, and that he had even some of his own natural and...
7. CHAPTER VII.“In vain may art the couch of sickness tend, Or friendship sigh, or sympathy implore, Or love, all sanguine, o’er the sufferer bend; The mortal sinks,—and every hope is o’er! Th...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Yet still, thou mourner, o’er the death-bed stand, Still honour, as thou canst, the breathless clay, Still bring thy flowers, and strew with pious hand, And weep behind the bier...