The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 28. kötetF. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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66 My lord acquainted affected answered appeared arrived asked beauty behaviour beheld carriage CHAPTER child cried Miss Milner cried Miss Woodley cried Sandford danger dare daugh daughter dear Miss dine dinner door Dorriforth earl Elmwood House exclaimed eyes face father favour fear feel felt forgive gave give guardian hand happiness hear heart Heaven hope Horton knew Lady Elmwood Lady Ma Lady Matilda looked Lord Elm Lord Elmwood Lord Frederick Lord Margrave lordship madam manner means mind Miss Fenton morning never object observed occasion offended once pardon passed passion perhaps person pity present propen racters received replied Miss Woodley replied Sandford returned Rushbrook sentiments servant sigh soon sorrow speak suffer suppose tears tell tenderness thing thought tion told took trembling tremely turned uncle uttered voice walked ward wish wood Woodley's word XXVIII young
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208. oldal - God," said he to Lady Elmwood, " of that God who suffered for you, and, suffering, knew and pitied all our weaknesses — by Him, who has given his word to take compassion on the sinner's tears, I bid you hope for mercy. By that innocence in which you once lived, be comforted ; by the sorrows you have known since your...
230. oldal - ... her. Educated in the school of adversity, and inured to retirement from her infancy, she had acquired a taste for all those amusements which a recluse life affords. She was fond of walking and riding; was accomplished in the arts of music and drawing, by the most careful instructions of her mother; and as a scholar, she excelled most of her sex, from the pains which Sandford had taken with that part of, her education, and the superior abilities he possessed for the task.
8. oldal - Much worse than nothing, in my opinion," returned Dorriforth. " But now, Mr. Dorriforth, do not from what I have said, frighten yourself, and imagine your ward worse than she really is — all I know of her, is merely, that she's young, idle, indiscreet, and giddy, with half a dozen lovers in her suite ; some coxcombs, others men of gallantry, some single, and others married." Dorriforth started. " For the first time of my life," cried he with a manly sorrow, " I wish I had never known her father.
209. oldal - I should fail," continued he, " yet while I live she shall not want a friend or protector — all an old man, like me, can answer for " here his grief interrupted him. Lady Elmwood was sufficiently sensible of his words and their import, to make a sign as if she wished to embrace him : but finding her life leaving her fast, she reserved this last token of love for her daughter — with a struggle she lifted herself from her pillow, clung to her child — and died in her arms.
208. oldal - As he spoke these words of consolation, her trembling hand clasped his — her dying eyes darted a ray of brightness — but her failing voice endeavoured in vain to articulate. At length, fixing her looks upon her daughter as their last dear object, she was .just understood to utter the word,
74. oldal - But are you so blind," returned Miss Milner, with a degree of madness in her looks, "as to believe I do not care for Mr. Dorriforth? Oh! Miss Woodley! I love him with all the passion of a mistress, and with all the tenderness of a wife.
286. oldal - Rushbrook, went to a small shooting seat, near twenty miles distant from Elmwood Castle, for a week's particular sport. Matilda was once more at large ; and one beautiful morning, about eleven o'clock, seeing Miss Woodley walking on the lawn before the house, she hastily took her hat to join her ; and not waiting to put it on, went nimbly down the great staircase, with it hanging on her arm.
207. oldal - In a lonely country on the borders of Scotland, a single house by the side of a dreary heath, was the residence of the once gay, volatile Miss Milner. In a large gloomy apartment of this solitary habitation (the windows of which scarcely rendered the light accessible) was laid upon her death-bed, the once lovely Lady Elmwood — pale, half suffocated...
341. oldal - ... sleep to her was suffering; her fears giving birth to dreams terrifying as her waking thoughts. More wearied than refreshed with her sleep, she rose at break of day; and, refusing to admit of the change of an article in her dress, she persisted to wear the torn, disordered habiliment in which she had been dragged away; nor would she taste a morsel of all the delicacies that were prepared for her. • Her attendant for some time observed the most reverential awe; but finding this humility had...
286. oldal - ... fell motionless into her father's arms. He caught her, as by the same impulse, he would have caught any other person falling for want of aid. Yet when he found her in his arms, he still held her there — gazed on her attentively — um! once pressed her to his bosom.