Finden's Tableaux. a Series of Picturesque Scenes of National Character, Beauty, and Costume. Frim Paintings by Various Artists, After Sketches by W. Perring Ed. by ---
Finden's Tableaux. a Series of Picturesque Scenes of National Character, Beauty, and Costume. Frim Paintings by Various Artists, After Sketches by W. Perring Ed. by ---.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...gathered over his comely countenance, as he turned towards the spot where D'Auberval lay; making a gesture as though he would spurn him--and glancing downwards towards the dagger that lurked in the folds of his sash. But the wrath passed. He merely said: --" She would, then, have returned to him--she would have left ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...gathered over his comely countenance, as he turned towards the spot where D'Auberval lay; making a gesture as though he would spurn him--and glancing downwards towards the dagger that lurked in the folds of his sash. But the wrath passed. He merely said: --" She would, then, have returned to him--she would have left her own people for him!--my dead brother's child! And he would have dishonoured her!" Then he quietly departed. It was a week after that day that a party of young French officers went out from the city to see the inundation of the Nile, then at its highest; and higher than it had been known to rise for many seasons. They laughed, they sung, they played those gay tricks with each other, which distinguish--in the intercourse among men--our livelier neighbours from our sober selves. But the most gamesome of the party, the foremost in every freak, the most vociferous in every chorus and charivari, was wanting--Where was Alfred Montin? "Only fancy that good Alfred turned nurse!" said one. "How dull we are without him! Day and night--night and day: he never quits D'Auberval's bedside." "And what ails D'Auberval?" "Dying, only!" was the philosophic reply, as the speaker lighted his cigar. "Petitpierre says poison.... but my belief is, it is those sullen humours. Thou heard'st the news from Paris, that le Marquis de Rochambault had stabbed his wife--she was that little Aurelie--in a fit of jealousy. Mon Dieu! they say she gave him abundant cause." "Well, but what is that to Montin?" Nothing to Montin--bete I D'Auberval was an old lover of hers. They were to have been married; but a quarrel--I don't know what about--never mind.... Come, as Montin is not here, sing something!" "...
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