The Law and the Lady: A Novel, Volum 2

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Chatto and Windus, 1875 - 341 sider
 

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Side 4 - charged against the prisoner being found proven by the Verdict, he, the said Eustace Macallan, ' ought to be punished with the pains of the law, to deter others from committing the like crimes in all time coming.
Side 142 - to beg when you have answered me.' Major Fitz-David set down his wineglass on its way to his lips, and looked at me with an appearance of breathless interest. ' Command me, my dear lady—I am yours and yours only,' said the gallant old gentleman. ' What do you wish to ask me ?'
Side 253 - now in the ante-room, and now in the corridor outside. It was plain that I had (quite innocently) disturbed the repose of some formidable secrets in Miserrimus Dexter's mind. I confused and wearied my poor brains in trying to guess what the secrets might be. All my ingenuity—as
Side 127 - and the delicious air, I found courage enough to face the serious question that now confronted me—the question of the future. I had read the Trial. I had vowed to devote my life to the sacred object of vindicating my husband's innocence. A
Side 14 - painful if you like, when she moved it; and the confinement to bed was irksome enough, no doubt. But otherwise there was nothing in the lady's condition, before the fatal attack came, to alarm her or anybody about her. She had her books, and her writing-materials, on an invalid table which worked on a pivot, and could be arranged in any position
Side 176 - cried the frantic creature, now. ' I am writing " Lear," the tragedy of tragedies. Ancients and moderns, I am the poet who towers over them all. Light! light! the lines flow out like lava from the eruption of my volcanic mind. Light! light! for the poet of all time to write the words that live
Side 212 - any heart and any sense of shame left in him. I sicken as I write of it. ' Does she still meditate that hopeless project—the offspring, poor angel, of her artless, unthinking generosity ? Does she still fancy that it is in her power to assert my innocence before the world ? Oh, mother (if she
Side 104 - renewed. During the silence which followed this announcement, the new witness appeared. Gliding, self-propelled in his chair on wheels, through the opening made for him among the crowd, a strange and startling creature—literally the half of a man— revealed himself to the general view. A coverlid, which

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