The memoirs of a femme de chambre, Volum 3B. Tauchnitz, 1846 - 440 pàgines |
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Pàgina 129 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is— to die.
Pàgina 31 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Pàgina 60 - ... assiduities without a positive declaration, one might affect to misunderstand their attentions, however marked ; but those decided declarations leave nothing to the imagination; and offended modesty, with all the guards of female propriety, are indispensably up in arms. I remember reading in some book that "A man has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, that she has not a presentiment of it some moments before...
Pàgina 152 - Blessed, blessed ties, that hind me to an existence that without them would be, indeed a dreary, an insupportable one! Yes, even here, with so much to render me anxious for the present, and to alarm me for the future, I feel that I have a great deal to be thankful for, and that, while Heaven spares me you and our child , I ought not to despair.
Pàgina 125 - Glastonbury, when, in a luckless hour, she consented to receive his farewell. That interview, which was to have been their last for years to come, perhaps, for ever, saw her fall from virtue; and her seducer, now master of her destiny, abandoned his project of exile, — if, indeed, he ever seriously entertained it, — and remained to enjoy the triumph he had achieved. For some months the passion of Lord Glastonbury continued unabated; and the devoted attention and respect with which it was evinced,...
Pàgina 2 - Yes, I heard you conversing with Lady Almondbury in that language the other day, and your pronunciation struck me to be so pure, that it occurred to me that it would be a very good opportunity for me to brush up my Italian a little, which I have greatly neglected for some time, by chatting with you." Selina made no reply; but Lady Adelaide said, " O pray speak French, papa, for then I can understand what is said, for I know French very well, don't I, dear Miss Stratford?