Category: Romance
I am only too painfully aware, my dear friend, that in my history of a "Woman's Love," I have related none but very common occurrences and situations, and entered into minute, nay, perhaps, uninteresting details. Still, however common an event may be, it is susceptible of vari...
"True; but for a manner that means nothing, I never saw a manner more offensive to a modest wife. However, I am very glad he has been so clear-sighted as to my motives; for I wi...
5. Part 5I must now return to Charlotte Jermyn. I forgot to say, that she wrote a very fawning letter of thanks to me after her return home, thanking me for my kindness to her, and hopin...
13. Part 13"Oh! he is very wretched!" he replied: "but he told me nothing concerning himself; he only walked up and down the narrow room, asking me nothing but about you, and why they let...
10. Part 10It was some moments before Pendarves could speak; at length he said--"Your request alone would have been sufficient, without your calling up such agonizing ideas. Helen, my best...
7. Part 7But amidst the various feelings which made my cheek pale, my brow thoughtful and sad, my form meagre, and which deprived me of every thing but the mere outline of former beauty,...
2. Part 2"Not so," said I eagerly: "I humbly trust that even your example would not make me swerve from my duty; and my observation was a general one. Still, my favourite and constant pr...
12. Part 12On our way, the _citoyen_ exclaimed, "_O mon Dieu! le voila lui-meme!_"[16] and we saw the dreaded Robespierre hastily approaching us. He desired to know what was the matter wit...
11. Part 11No: if ever I deserved the character of a good wife, it was from the passive fortitude and the patient spirit with which I bore up against neglect, wounded affections, and sligh...
6. Part 6"You are the wife of my great uncle, madam, no more; and were you even my mother, I would not sit and listen tamely to aspersions of my husband, and I must desire that our conve...
1. Part 1I am only too painfully aware, my dear friend, that in my history of a "Woman's Love," I have related none but very common occurrences and situations, and entered into minute, n...
4. Part 4As soon as they had had coffee the brother and sister drove off, but not before Lord Charles had fixed to return that day fortnight to dinner, on condition of my dining below.
9. Part 9I never saw Lord Charles so disconcerted as he was during the whole of the time. He could not bear to praise the heroine of the evening, yet he felt that praise was her due. Nor...
8. Part 8If now before this splendid throng With timid voice, but daring aim, I strive to wake my pensive song And urge the minstrel's tuneful claim; One wish alone the anxious task can...
14. Part 14"No; I had a long conversation with Pendarves,--for after his late behaviour, and being convinced that he was alone, I had no objection to call on him,--and he received me as I...