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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 286 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=21mm, Gew.=590gr, [GR: 11110 - HC/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Lit… Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 286 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=21mm, Gew.=590gr, [GR: 11110 - HC/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Literature - Classics / Criticism], Gebunden Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Pebhaps it was six weeks after the events I have last recorded, when very early one spring morning, Alfred hastily opened the drawer which had been my weary abode for so long a period. He snatched me up, and put me into a purse I had never been in a purse before, and this was a very pretty one, made of green and amber silk, with gold tassels and rings; and, the moment I came in contact with it, I knew that it was a present from his sister Marion, and had been netted by her little fingers. The stray gold and silver that lay in the drawer were also gathered up, and put into the other end of the purse, which Alfred then laid on the table, while he proceeded to select different letters and papers from the aforesaid drawer. There was a look of calm determination in his face, which I had never seen imprinted there before. His brows were contracted, and his lips firmly compressed; and I saw that he was fully resolved on some decided act. I also saw that this resolve had been arrived at through a painful process of doubt and deliberation; and that the moment of decision had been hastened by some very taunting expressions from Ifr. Griffin. All Alfred's hesitation had vanished then; and all misgivings ofconscience on his mother's account were absorbed in feelings of indignation and wounded pride. His present life was not to be endured. Rapidly he selected all Mrs. Selwyn's and Marion's letters; and, with a look of tearful affection, placed them in a pocket-book which he consigned to a portmanteau which lay open on the floor. In this he also packed the best articles of his wardrobe, and then sat down to write a farewell letter to his mother. I watched his pen, and I knew every word that it inscribed; and much was I affected by the expressions of penitence and lov...<

ISBN: 1120079446

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