Donna Quixote, Volume 2

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Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1879

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Page 200 - Yes, he quite understood now. He knew that he had a faithful friend; and that in her he could never have anything more. He could bear this, but it was too soon for him to do more than endure it. "This is a dreary room," she said, "for anyone but me; and I would not have brought you here, only — do you know that you are the only man who has ever been in this room since it was given up to its present purpose?" She was not thinking of any such meaning, but her words told Taxal that he was the first...
Page 246 - Constance — some people will,' he groaned. ' I told you, George,' his wife said with that gentle firmness which becomes those who gave good advice that was not taken — ' I told you this creature would give trouble if she were left at large. She ought to have been met boldly and sent to prison at once.' ' But, my dear, you couldn't have sent her to prison.
Page 271 - Say that you forgive me,' he answered, ' and that you will sometimes think of me perhaps.' He had even yet no better hope. ' But must you still go away ? ' * You would not have me stay, after this ? '
Page 163 - WHY had Clarkson Fielding been so unwise as to argue and endeavour to convince Gabrielle? He should not have discussed the question of Paulina's treatment : he should have done something forthwith, and confronted Gabrielle with accomplished realities. For all that experience of men and cities on which Sir Wilberforce had complimented him, he had not anything like the knowledge of how to deal with women which came instinctively to his home-keeping brother's homely wits. Sir Wilberforce made up his...
Page 148 - I am like the fellow in Apuleius ; if I am an ass, I know it.' CHAPTER XX. SIR WILBERFORCE'S INTERVENTION. WHEN the excitement of her discussion with Fielding was over, and she had formally proclaimed herself the protectress of Paulina against the world, Gabrielle began to feel a little dispirited and blank. She was convinced that she had been in the right, and...
Page 185 - We will go up to the nursery now," she said, to the children. " You know we have to finish that story, Johnny." And with her two charges running before her, in a great hurry for the story, she went out of the room and closed the door behind her.
Page 158 - Sir Wilberforce shook his head and sat down again. ' Where do you keep your property?' he asked — 'jewels and things — plate and things ? plate at the bank ? ' ' Everything of that kind that I have is in this house — not much, Sir Wilberforce,' said Gabrielle, smiling and likewise blushing. His good-humoured, brusque, dictatorial way was not to be resisted, even although Gabrielle began to think that he was looking on her as a fool. ' Never do, never do,
Page 273 - ... able to make his painful and ignominious escape without meeting his brother as he went. Suddenly, with the rush as of a wind, a great feeling of joy came over him. ' She said she loved me; I heard her say it; nothing on earth can alter thatl'
Page 221 - That young man gives his opinion much too dogmatically,' Mrs. Leven thought to herself. ' If I were Gabrielle I would not allow him to talk in that sort of way. I must advise her. How unlike he is to his brother ! ' ' Major Leven is having a great meeting somewhere to-night, isn't he ? ' Sir Wilberforce asked her. ' He is — at St. James's Hall. Something about a colony. I do not quite understand the subject.
Page 194 - I've been trying to come to this along time ; I've had the words on my lips again and again, and I always broke down somehow and could not get them out ; but now I will speak. Give me a right to speak for you ; let me stand up for you — ' ' Mr. Taxal — don't, please, talk in that way — no one is condemning me — everyone is too kind to me — almost everyone — I don't want any defenders — I have done no wrong.

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