Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4

“The intelligence that was the cause of old Sir Roger’s death, who might be said to be conducted from this world to the next by a blessed _euthanasia_, (a kind of passing with a...

“As they spoke, a soft knock was heard, such as kindness gives at the door of misfortune, and Everhard started up to answer it. “Stay,” said Walberg, absently, “Where are the se...

“When Elinor arrived in Yorkshire, she found her aunt was dead. Elinor went to visit her grave. It was, in compliance with her last request, placed near the window of the indepe...

“That night was the one fixed on for the union of Isidora and Melmoth. She had retired early to her chamber, and sat at the casement watching for his approach for hours before s...

“Don Francisco rode on most of that day. The weather was mild, and his servants holding occasionally large umbrellas over him as he rode, rendered travelling supportable. In con...

“The remainder of that dreadful night when Isidora disappeared, had been passed almost in despair by Donna Clara, who, amid all her rigour and chilling mediocrity, had still the...

“The wife of Walberg, who was naturally of a cool sedate temper, and to whom misfortune had taught an anxious and jealous prevoyance, was not so intoxicated with the present pro...

“Of what I am about to read to you,” said the stranger, “I have witnessed part myself, and the remainder is established on a basis as strong as human evidence can make it.

“The whole of the next day was occupied by Donna Clara, to whom letter-writing was a rare, troublesome, and momentous task, in reading over and correcting her answer to her husb...

It is a singular, but well-attested fact, that women who are compelled to undergo all the inconveniences and uneasiness of clandestine pregnancy, often fare better than those wh...

The monk and the nun forgot their beads, They fell to the ground dismayed, There was not a single saint in heaven Whom they did not call to their aid!

“In less than half an hour, the superb apartments, the illuminated gardens of Aliaga, did not echo a footstep; all were gone, except a few who lingered, some from curiosity, som...

“The first examination of Isidora was conducted with the circumspective formality that has always been known to mark the proceedings of that tribunal. The second and the third w...

“We have now to retrace a short period of our narrative to the night on which Don Francisco di Aliaga, the father of Isidora, “fortuned,” as he termed it, to be among the compan...

“It is inconceivable to me,” said Don Aliaga to himself, as he pursued his journey the next day--“it is inconceivable to me how this person forces himself on my company, harasse...

There is an oak beside the froth-clad pool, Where in old time, as I have often heard, A woman desperate, a wretch like me, Ended her woes!--Her woes were not like mine!

Melmoth and Monçada did not dare to approach the door till about noon. They then knocked gently at the door, and finding the summons unanswered, they entered slowly and irresolu...

Such was the state of Elinor, when the arrival of one who had been long “Such was the state of Elinor, when the arrival of one who had been long

We have now to retrace a short period of our narrative to the night on “We have now to retrace a short period of our narrative to the night on

Fra Jose melted at the appeal, and he was about to bestow many a kiss “Fra Jose melted at the appeal, and he was about to bestow many a kiss