Trevelyan, by the author of 'A marriage in high life'., Volume 3 |
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affection agitation alarm anxiety appeared Augusta beheld bless brave companion carriage ceston cheek Cheshunt Colonel Lindsay companion continued Cornwall countenance dare dear dear boy door Dorset Street dreadful endeavour exclaimed eyes face fancied fear feelings gazed hand happy hastily heard heart Heaven hope horses hour Humphries hurried husband immediately instantly Ives kind Lady Herbert Leslie Lady Launceston landlady Lascelles laudanum leave length letter libertine little St look Lord Herbert Lord Launceston manner melancholy mind minute Mivart's Hotel morning never night object once opened papa passed passion Penrhyn poor pretty lady recollections remained replied Richmond roused scene seemed sight Sir Henry Williams Sir John Moore sister's smile soon speak stopped suddenly sure talpa tears tell Theresa thing thought tion tone totally Treevy trembling Trevel Trevelyan felt Twickenham velyan voice wife wish words
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Page 203 - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins : return unto me ; for I have redeemed thee.
Page 286 - Those joyous hours are passed away ; And many a heart that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone — That tuneful peal will still ring on ; While other bards shall walk these dells, And sing your praise, sweet evening bells.
Page 115 - Twas but a moment that he stood, Then sped as if by death pursued : But in that instant o'er his soul Winters of Memory seem'd to roll, And gather in that drop of time A life of pain, an age of crime.
Page 208 - Oh ! o'er the eye death most exerts his might, And hurls the spirit from her throne of light ! Sinks those blue orbs in that long last eclipse, But spares, as yet, the charm around her lips...
Page 209 - When the violence of his grief at length forced back Trevelyan's mind to the consciousness of his loss, he fell upon his knees — for never before had he so needed, and never before so much felt, the consolations of his religion ; his imagination fondly rested on that smile, that bright gleam of hope which had seemed to visit Theresa's parting soul ; on those blessed words of peace which had escaped from her dying...
Page 155 - He therefore, without delay, wrote to Humphries, and gave directions that a person should make all possible .speed to town with his letter to Lord Herbert ; then proceed with his despatch to Richmond, and endeavour, in his way back, to obtain an. answer to that left at Mivart's Hotel. At six o'clock a man was also sent to Cheshunt with his letter to Augusta. CHAPTER VIII. • • And this was she ! the peerless and the bright— The false world's darling ! Yes, -this was she ! — but mark ye, I...
Page 189 - Herbert," he repeated in a firmer voice/ " would you see your husband if he were to come ?" Still no answer, and her eyes remained closed ; but by the restless motion of her hand, which was lying at her side, it was evident it was not sleep which thus benumbed her faculties. Again Trevelyan spoke to her. " Theresa, your husband is come; will you not see him?
Page 208 - And the cold flowers 16 her colder hand contained, In that last grasp as tenderly were strained As if she scarcely felt, but feigned a sleep, And made it almost mockery yet to weep : The long dark lashes fringed her lids of snow, And veiled—thought shrinks from all that lurked below— 1781 Oh ! o'er the eye death most exerts his might, And hurls the spirit from her throne of light!
Page 1 - tis then — he thou hast slighted Would come to cheer thee when all seem'd o'er ; Then the Truant, lost and blighted, Would to his bosom be taken once more.