Alice, or the Mysteries: (Edward Bulwer Lytton Classic Collection)
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ISBN10: 1500956651
ISBN13: 9781500956653
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 25 2014
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781500956653
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 25 2014
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
That owner was the younger of the ladies seated by the window. You would scarcely have guessed, from her appearance, that she was more than seven or eight and twenty, though she exceeded by four or five years that critical boundary in the life of beauty. Her form was slight and delicate in its proportions, nor was her countenance the less lovely because, from its gentleness and repose (not unmixed with a certain sadness) the coarse and the gay might have thought it wanting in expression. For there is a stillness in the aspect of those who have felt deeply, which deceives the common eye, -as rivers are often alike tranquil and profound, in proportion as they are remote from the springs which agitated and swelled the commencement of their course, and by which their waters are still, though invisibly, supplied
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