The Devil Upon Two Sticks in England Volume 5; Being a Continuation of Le Diable Bo Teux of Le Sage

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.1817 Excerpt: ... . Tiave fixed your sympathetic regards, is all which, in a few minutes, will remain of that Honoria whos? situation so much affected your fee'rigr, ibic mo: -g, v/. cr. X gave you the history of it, prev'0115 to try sallying forth wilh yen on o.ir n.cset progress. She seem; to 1.py Im preserved by Heaven itcc'f, f 6m one of Mo?-: frying positions to which female vhtue has beea sonlimes exror-cd, and never, in my experience, been able to resist. Nor have I the laot. doubt but cho, with all th.3 dig-. rificJ superiority of her character, would have fallen, if Death had not appeared, as he oflencr decs than weak, short-eiphted mortals r.rc disposed to conceive, a protec'or fVoni over-hanging evil. The man in bbek, whom you suppose to be her husband, io (h faithless and favourite friend to whose hype/critic arts she was on the verge of becoming a prey;--and his apparent g-: ef is nothing more than the masked rage of disappointment, lust, and ambition. L I have seldom, exclaimed Don Cleofas, in a tone of uncommon animation, --very seldom beheld a scene of real life that has afforded me a more sensible pleasure than this chamber of death;--I stand, as it were, on the beach, and see the beauteous vessel escape the surrounding shoals, and enter the harbour of eternal safety.'..'.-And without any malicious design, ' said Asmodeus, /' of cooling the charming ardour of your, heroic sensations, permit me to recommend your attentions to pass On np further than the next door, where you will be the witness of another escape, --which, though it may not work you up into such poetic sentiments as the last, has wherewithal, I should hope, to afford a satisfaction very gratifying to your humanity.., The gentleman whom you now see rising from his bed, was taken so very il...