...melt, and dissolve itself into a dew;" and, withal, he trembled exceedingly, for he, like old 13agsby, considered the thing to be " an ugly piece of business."...entrance. " The old fellow was right," sighed Comte Lonis to himself; " I have merely frightened the bigot out of his senses, and rendered myself no sort...

...second mother for her. Nor was that lady wanting in any office of affection and solicitude ; but she had been brought up in a very different school from that in which young ladies of even that day—now some time ago —were educated. Notwithstanding her comparatively...