The Garland, Or Token of FriendshipEmily Percival Z. & B.F. Pratt, 1849 |
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Adelaide Agnes Antoi Antoinette asked aunt beautiful black velvet band bless bride bright Captain Elliott Cecilia Charles Foster cheek chidden child Constance cousin Cressingham cried daugh daughter dear death Dorton dream Emily Esdras exclaimed eyes fancy father feelings felt Florence Howard funeral gaze gentle girl grave green arbor grief hand happy heard heart heavenly creature Herr von Wallen honor hope hour husband inquired Jane Karlsbad Keswycke kissing knew lady laugh look Lord love story lover marriage married MARY RUSSELL MITFORD ment Milicent mind Minna morning mother nature never night painful passed Patty poor quakeress replied Robert Robert's arm seemed Selwyn sigh signia silent silken flowers sister smile soft eyes sorrow soul spirit Stein sweet tale tears tell thought tion told tomb town trembled voice wedding weep wife wish woman word young youth
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Page 12 - Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick: with them the oars were silver; "Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 15 - as this miserable hovel! — " And if it should not be Juliet's tomb after all ! " Out, sceptic ! The tradition goes far back. The dull Veronese themselves do not question it ! Why should we ? We all bear about us the prototype of that scene. That which made the passion and the glory of our youth, the Juliet of the heart, when once it has died and left us, lies not its tomb within us, forgotten and...
Page 267 - ... England that the full disaster crushed me. We had often been applied to for money by my family, and Lord Reginald had acceded to nearly all their requests. When we reached London after two years' absence, my first wish was to see my dear mother. She was at Margate for her health. It was agreed that I should go there alone, and pay a short visit. Before I went, Lord Reginald told me what I did not know before, that my family had often made exorbitant demands on him, with which he was resolved...
Page 78 - Francis was really guilty of the offence laid to his charge did not for a moment occupy her fears. A De Cressingham turn assassin ! — No, no, Frank might have subjected himself to suspicion — but to become a deliberate murderer! Impossible ! She knew him to be deeply pledged to the fugitive king — the advocate and upholder of his most obnoxious measures ; and he had probably been induced into some outrage, whereby still deadlier suspicions became attached to his designs. What was to be done?...
Page 74 - The influence of a woman thus gifted was necessarily great at the sober court of the new queen ; where, sorely against her will, and solely in obedience to her husband, Lady Keswycke had undertaken the post of Lady of the Bedchamber. Resigning the tranquil seclusion of Keswycke Moat for the stir and pageantry of Hampton Court, and elbowed in the antechamber of the palace of St.
Page 255 - ... hopeless suffering, the desolating conviction of having lost the heart which has cast its spells over her first affections. ***** Ektatos Koliopulos, on learning the exchange, and concluding the rebel was beyond his reach, withdrew from the manifestations of popular feeling; and the heroic Anastasoula was borne nearly lifeless to our house. Her alabaster skin had been stained to the deep tint of her husband's, and the resemblance made complete by the sacrifice of her luxuriant tresses, so that...
Page 62 - But the love that has grown with our growth and strengthened with our strength is not to be cast away in an hour, however grievous the backslidings of its object. The indignant daughter wavered not for a moment in her determination, nor was there one tear of repentance among the floods with which she bathed the green boughs of the arbor after Cressingham's departure ; but she soon grew more than ever attached to the spot; — coming thither in the first place to sigh over her lover's offences; —...
Page 58 - The clipped arbor was now deserted, or made to shelter a pair of turtle doves in lieu of the solitary sparrow. But lo ! before cousin Frank's complexion had lost a shade of its Hungarian swarthiness under the less fervid skies of Britain, he and the old knight unluckily hit upon a matter of contestation far more stimulant to the wrath of both parties than either the test act, the orthodoxy of Dr. Sancroft, or the authenticity of the Rye-house plot. Francis de Cressingham ventured to demand the hand...
Page 63 - Jeffries's black list; and that nothing less than the protection of a son-in-law, rich and influential as the Lord Keswycke, would secure the old knight from impeachment and the Tower. The two girls, who were no strangers to their father's imprudence of speech and action, trembled while they listened ! — And on the very evening of the chaplain's argumentation, Lord Keswycke arrived anew at the Hall! But, having formerly put to the proof the fair Milicent's inaccessibility to the ordinary temptations...
Page 53 - Cressingham died of a slow decay, there was no one in the house whose endearments afforded consolation to her two moping, motherless girls, saving those of " cousin Frank." His visits to the Hall from college or his regiment were hailed as signals for a general holiday. Sir Giles prepared for a carouse with the...