The Club-book: Being Original Tales

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Página 51 - Twixt soul and body a divorce, It could not sunder man and wife, 'Cause they both lived but one life. Peace, good reader, do not weep. Peace, the lovers are asleep. They, sweet turtles, folded lie In the last knot that love could tie.
Página 233 - Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly: better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Página 173 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
Página 200 - Mde. de Launaye's attention ; and her husband took the opportunity of slipping away unobserved. He hastened into a gloomy avenue — the cedars, black with time and age, met like night, overhead, and far and dark did their shadows fall on the still and deep lake beside. Worn, haggard, with a timorous and hurried, yet light step, the young Baron might have been taken for one of his own ancestors, permitted for a brief period to revisit his home on earth, but invested with the ghastliness and the gloom...
Página 245 - I could not speak, but my German friend rose from his seat, and holding the volume in his left hand, touched it with his right, and looking sternly at the stranger, said : " In this volume, and in your own conscience, are the evidences which prove that you are Ralph Nocton, and that on this night, twice seven years ago, you murdered Mary Blake.
Página 199 - Dazzled by the glare he awoke, and found the bright eyes of his bride gazing tenderly oa his face. Weary as he was, still he remembered how uncourteous it would be to lie sleeping while she was so wide awake, and he forthwith roused himself as well as he could. Many persons say they can't sleep in a strange bed ; perhaps this might be the case with his bride ; and in new situations people should have all possible allowance made for them. They rose early the following morning, the baroness bright-eyed...
Página 238 - The remark smote me with an uncomfortable sensation of dread, and for a short time my flesh crawled as it were upon my bones. But the impression soon wore off, and was again entirely forgotten. When the anniversary again returned, I was seized with the same heaviness and objectless horror of mind ; it hung upon me with bodings and auguries until I went to bed, and then after my first sleep I was a third time roused by another fit of the same inscrutable panic.
Página 191 - Many a prince of your mother's house would think his kingdom overpaid if purchased by its half. You are young — I never was — my heart, even in boyhood, was old with premature knowledge. You have that beauty the want of which has made my life a curse — you have that strength of body the want of which has paralyzed my strength of mind. I have doubted if happiness dwells on this evil earth — I will not doubt when I hope for yours. You will hear me called...
Página 205 - On entering the parlour, although the " base uses " to which this ancient mansion had returned were clearly indicated by certain gillstoups scattered about the dirty tables, yet the extraordinary size of the room, the lowness of the walls, and the scantiness of the furniture, kept up in my mind the associations which had been suggested by the exterior ; and it was not till the aroma of tea, and the still more " fragrant lunt " of a Finnan haddie had saluted my senses, that the visions of the olden...
Página 64 - ... therefore when he returned he would show that he had not travelled without profit by having one made exactly similar for his best chamber, with hens and ducks under it, pleasantly feeding and joyously kackling and quacking. And he also observed a remarkable sagacity in the ducks, for when they saw he was a stranger, they turned up the sides of their heads and eyed him in a most curious and inquisitive manner — very different, indeed, to the ducks of Bagdad. When the ship had taken on board...

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