ISBN: 9781130683455

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 84 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 84 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: . . . Not much. Her light hand was playing with my hair, and her breath was warm on my cheek. I felt my wisdom vanishing, and tried to make up for its loss by an increased coldness of manner. One kiss, she said. Just one, and Ill go away. , What nonsense, Alice. Vhat time have I to think of kisses now She stood up, and looked me in the face. Do I tease you, Francis Very much. She gave a little sigh--so faint that I could scarcely hear it--and left the room. I had scared her gaiety away for that morning. This was the first cloud in our sky. It seems strange, now, when I look back upon it after the lapse of years, how perseveringly I laboured to destroy the foundation of peace and happiness on which I might have built my life. The remaining six months of that year were months of misery to me, and, I doubt not, to Alice, for she grew thin and pale, and lost her gaiety. I had succeeded only too well in my plan, and she had learned to doubt my affection for her. I felt this by the look in her eyes now and then, and by the way in which she seemed to cling to her dog, as if his fidelity and love were now her only hope. But I was too proud to own myself in the wrong, and the breach widened day by day. In the midst of all this estrangement the dog sickened. There was a week of misgiving on Alices part, when she sat beside him with her books, or writing all the time--there was a day when both books and manuscript were put away, and she was bending over him, withher tears falling fast, as she tried to hush his moans, and looked into his fast glazing eyes---and there was an hour of stillness, when she lay on the low couch, with her arm around his neck, . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<