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. 1852 Excerpt: ...intentions, and if anything could have amused her, it would have been to see Sir Ferdinand Cracroft and Mr. Lockdale trying to outvie each other with Miss Romarton General Romarton had determined to leave Sybella to her own unbiassed choice of a partner for life; however, he hoped she would decide for Mr. Lockdale. He ...
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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. 1852 Excerpt: ...intentions, and if anything could have amused her, it would have been to see Sir Ferdinand Cracroft and Mr. Lockdale trying to outvie each other with Miss Romarton General Romarton had determined to leave Sybella to her own unbiassed choice of a partner for life; however, he hoped she would decide for Mr. Lockdale. He thought Sir Ferdinand Cracroft could not have a good temper, and that a wife could scarcely be happy with a man who could be so ill-natured to the woman he loved, as he had been that morning respecting Captain Twisden. It was a proof of a teasing disposition, that bane of domestic happiness. In every other point of view either would suit him as a son-in-law. CHAPTER XL Sir Russell Lydd was walking slowly down the lane near his own garden, when he saw something on the ground, arid, picking it up, found it was some verses; the hand-writing was unknown to him, and he thought it no indiscretion to read them. They had been scribbled on the fly-leaf of a pocket-book, and it was rather difficult to make them out, still, his perseverance, was never at fault, and by degrees he made out the following lines: --"THE STRIFE IN MY HEART. "There is a magic in thy words, indeed! Persuasion of their truth rivets my mind! Words of deep pathos are to me a creed, Conviction, which I seek in them, I find! MAGIC WORDS. 115 "There is a magic in thy words, I feel Rules in my bosom with unearthly power! Through every fibre of my heart they steal, Pride falls away as 'twere a crumbling tower. "There is a magic in thy words I know, How infinite their strength I've often felt; They raise my feelings to a joyous glow, Through them the ice of grief fails not to melt. "There is a magic in thy words, alas! By them my fondest, brightest hopes are crush...
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