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Popular passages
Page 235 - He came upon the scaffold dressed in a suit of scarlet faced with black velvet, and trimmed with gold, a gold-laced waistcoat, white silk stockings, and a white feather in his hat...
Page 170 - Heaven, how I loved you ! So well that I was content to be befooled by your shallow artifices. So well, that I was content to believe anything — to deny the testimony of my own eyes, my own ears — ay, of reason itself, rather than believe you false. And you knew that; you calculated that my love would be your best ally in cheating me. I came here reckless of life, reckless of the pledge I had given the General not to quit the camp again.
Page 169 - Can it be that you do not understand my position yet ? Can it be that throughout the hours which have passed since morning — weary hours of anguish and suspense to me — no memory of the past has roused you to a sense of the wrong you do me ? Are you still blind ? " He rose to his feet, crushing in his hand the paper he had been so fixedly examining.
Page 172 - This was no doubt the purport of what you were to write : — ' My dear Colonel Strang, — Every obstacle to our union being removed by the execution of the impertinent person you had the misfortune to encounter this morning, the ceremony may proceed without delay.
Page 18 - In that case open you the packet and use the contents as you may think best. But let that be the last resource. Meanwhile, see that you keep faith with me in all things, for I will be near you.
Page 134 - My instructions are explicit — to give him no quarter if he refused to deliver up all who were involved with him in the conspiracy. He has refused — as I knew he would; and if he lives until tomorrow Cumberland must be obeyed.
Page 61 - You think me insolent for daring to obtrude myself on the attention of this brave lady ; but ladies of higher place have stooped before, and humbler men than I have dared to love them. That is not all — bid her tell the rest" (his voice rising and his whole frame trembling with passion).
Page 139 - ... you. You once told me that every woman was a hero, and upon my soul there never was a woman who had so fair a chance to prove herself one as you have to-night.
Page 137 - You too, might have had a daughter like me. Think of her placed as I am, and say what should be the answer of the man to whom she knelt, as I to you ? "