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Legend and Romance; African and European

Legend and Romance; African and European

Johns, Richard

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150002700
ISBN13: 9781150002700
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.66 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1839. Excerpt: ... it agitates you: let me request you to postpone this painful narration. Henrique! exclaimed the excited man, in answer to his nephew's proposal, there will be no postponement; everything draws to a close.--Yet did I once think that I had found mercy. Years of penitence, fasts, and vigils, --they must weigh in the balance. Seyvret seemed to be in silent prayer for a moment; then, taking no further notice of Henrique's interruption, he continued his story. When I first made the acquaintance of the two Creole girls, the ardent and impassioned Josephine enslaved my imagination, and 'I determined to make her my mistress. You are aware such an arrangement in the colonies gives not the scandal to morality which ever attends a connection of the kind in the mother country. This was for the consideration of Josephine and her mother; I cared little for laws, human or divine. Some slight attentions shown to Mariette, before 1 had actually explained my wishes, so enraged the elder sister, who from the first had imagined her conquest certain, that the mask which concealed the violence of her temper was for a moment laid aside. Furious were her expostulations with me, and mv love was changed into thorough disgust. I therefore congratulated myself that my original intention was unknown; and, becoming more and more enamoured of the fair and gentle Mariette, concluded my arrangements with Madame Dubourg by taking an establishment for her younger daughter. Josephine's rage and disappointment were manifested in uncontrolled abuse of her sister, and for many months she entered not the cottage in which we were secluded. I now quite abandoned my wild associates; and so sincere did I find the affection of Mariette, and so perfectly infatuated was 1 with her beauty, --Henriqu...

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