Trevelyan, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1833 |
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Page 1 - Well! thou art happy, and I feel That I should thus be happy too; For still my heart regards thy weal Warmly as it was wont to do. Thy husband's blest— and 'twill impart Some pangs to view his happier lot: But let them pass— Oh! how my heart Would hate him, if he loved thee not! When late I saw thy favourite child I thought my jealous heart would break; But when the unconscious infant smiled, I kiss'd it for its mother's sake.
Page 208 - Trevelyan withdraw his from their glance with a sort of mental shudder, for they had in them an expression which turned his very heart sick, although he could not — would not — have described it, they told him of scenes to which they had probably been witness, and which appeared to have left upon them a stamp of their lawlessness ! " And is it really you, Colonel Trevelyan ?" said Theresa, looking at him with most unfeigned pleasure ; " I can hardly believe it is not all a dream ! for you can...
Page 135 - ... wiles ; Light wit, that plays along the calm of life ; And stirs its languid surface into smiles ; Pure charity that comes not in a shower, Sudden and loud, oppressing what it feeds, But like the dew, with gradual silent power, Felt in the bloom it leaves...
Page 213 - Her friend laughed, and whispered something to Theresa, who also laughed ; then holding out her hand to Trevelyan, with the sweetest expression possible, " a demain," she said in a low voice, " Remember twelve," and left the room arm-in-arm with her companion. • How much had Trevelyan learnt by those few words which he had now overheard! They told him that Theresa was still a wife, which, from her strange silence respecting Lord Herbert, he had almost begun to doubt ; they told him that that love...
Page 290 - Let him come and sit by me," said Theresa, whose attention was at last attracted towards her companions, " and I will wrap him up in my cloak that he may not catch cold." The drowsy child was placed at her side ; she put her arm round him, and thus carefully screened from the air, he soon fell into a profound sleep on her shoulder. She gazed on him for some time in silence, and then wiping away a tear which had fallen on his rosy cheek from her's — " Poor child ! " she said, " how happy ! how peaceful...
Page 210 - We did not somehow agree very well formerly, you know," said she.; but now she is your wife, I am sure you have taught her to be everything that is charming. — Excellent she always was ; indeed too excellent for me, which was, I fear, the true secret of our not suiting ; and if that were the bar to our friendship before, what will it be now ? " — added she, with a something between a smile and a sigh. " But I will be as hypocritical as I can, in order to win her regard, for your wife I must love,...
Page 213 - There is my direction," said she, taking a card of address out of her bag," and come as early as you like, at twelve — at any hour in short, I shall be too happy to see you." Her handsome young friend then returned with her cloak, and, as he assisted her in putting it on, " What in the world," said he, " is Leslie doing with himself, I have not set eyes on him to-day.
Page 213 - ... Lascelles, and I will come directly." Then as her unknown friend left the room, turning again to Trevelyan, she said in a low voice : " You must come to me to-morrow morning, I have still so much to say, and to ask." Trevelyan, who had neither time nor inclination to refuse the appointment, inquired where, and at what hour, he was to call on her.
Page 289 - ... from the door in silence. For Trevelyan noticed with too much pleasure the present emotions of Theresa's heart, to wish to disturb the reverie in which he saw she was absorbed, and being himself also depressed and pre-occupied, he willingly left her to her own reflections. Before long, St. Ives's little head began to nod with sleep, and Trevelyan, fearful he might fall, endeavoured, but in vain, to prop him up with the cushions of the carriage. " Let him come and sit by me...
Page 149 - I have been thinking that it will be a good plan, rather than the provisions should all be wasted, and the people disappointed, for the bailiff quietly to divide the bread and meat among the poorest families : he has, I believe, a list of those who were to have partaken of the food, if not, I can give it him.