Helena Egerton; or Traits of female character, by the author of Always happy, 第 2 巻 |
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Adam Wronghead admirable amiable asked aunt Barbara baronet beneath Black Swan blush bosom brother called calm ceived censure CHAP CHAPTER chariot charm cheek cheerful child comfort countess Courtney dance daugh dear Susan deemed dinner earl Eger elegant esquire exclaimed father fear feeble feeling gazed gentleman give hand happy hard rain head heard heart HELENA EGERTON hope human husband Jack lady Ruthven lady Wronghead laughing lence lips look lord Melmoth lord Ruthven ma'am Mansel Mary Knowlesdon ment misery Miss Muddleton Miss Patty Muddleton Montague morning mother murmured ness never night party pity poor pretty Primrose Random Hall replied retired revived scene secret selfish sigh sir Gabriel sister smiled solicitor sorrow sought spinster splendid stranger sufferer sure Susan Knowlesdon tague tears tender thing thought Thurleston tion tone trembling virtue watched wife woman word wound young
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98 ページ - be kindly received." She then playfully repeated from Sterne—" I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands— be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore^
43 ページ - The shortest way to be rich is, not by enlarging our estates, but contracting our desires.
87 ページ - across the heath, she. encountered more agreeable events, and beheld more pleasing objects, than Smellfungus would have discovered in a voyage round the world; and half an hour's chat, with her after one of these little excursions was as enlivening as a fairy tale : she had met with so much goodness—she had
88 ページ - so much kindness—she had witnessed so much beauty and so much novelty ! flowers bloomed fair and breathed sweet, in unprecedented perfection; the verdure of fields and trees was never before so lovely—the lambs sported on purpose to please her, and the birds warbled with unwonted
49 ページ - the splendour of your opulent associates, but content yourself with the simplicity appropriate to your humbler fate: you will at least escape envy, unless of your modesty and good sense (not that we often hear of this direction of that passion). Convince your acquaintance, that you invite them, not to rival but to please them—that you invite them from a
85 ページ - followed foul, and that tomorrow's serenity and beauty would overpay the roughness and cloudiness of to-day. Two days after the twentyfirst of December, she began her dissertation on the charm of lengthening days, and with the first snowdrop commenced her gay
220 ページ - Mrs. Egerton the feeble glimmering of hope, which might but have lighted her to a severer depth of despair. Mrs. Mary was secretly ushered to the chamber of the sick boy, and by her cares nourished this reviving spark of life, till it strengthened into the vigorous flame of healthy existence. Helena, absorbed by her
179 ページ - was soothed. A month of solitude and suffering had wrought a great change in the feelings as well as the frame of the countess: as her beauty faded, the vanity it inspired and fed had withered; as she lost the capacity to enjoy earthly delights, earthly delights ceased to engross her attachment: the world declined
79 ページ - poor sufferer. —" What has caused this afflicting eruption?" " Alas, madam ! the doctors call this the chimney-sweepers' cancer, and they say it comes of the soot that enters the skin." " And how happened this dreadful accident?" inquired Mr. Knowlesdon. The father replied by lamenting that such accidents will sometimes happen, in spite of every thing that
234 ページ - Beverly with the young duke of , and learnt from Helena, who till then had faithfully kept the secret, that Augusta had been long engaged to his grace, even when she smiled sweetest on the infatuated Montague. Lord Melmoth had essayed, by every means in his power, to recover his amiable daughter from her ignoble