The Select Circulating Library Volume 9, PT. 1 download torrent

The Select Circulating Library Volume 9, PT. 1 download torrent

The Select Circulating Library Volume 9, PT. 1 by Adam Waldie

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Author: Adam Waldie
Page Count: 924 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236042156
Download Link: The Select Circulating Library Volume 9, PT. 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ... sights at present wholly ideal. She gasped for breath--vainly she struggled against terrors amounting to agony. At that moment, the disgust with which she was accustomed to contemplate the probability of Breteuil's return, was forgotten. Margaret would have borne cheerfully with his insults, to have secured the safety of those she loved--her father, and him who had been the means of preserving her father's gray hairs from sorrow and disgrace. "Heaven have mercy on me, and grant me strength, for I must not pray for death--dare not pray for death!" she exclaimed, in a concentrated voice, ' overpowered by the throbbing of every pulse in her excited frame. "No! this is no moment for me to die! I must exert myself for the sake of my poor old father. I must rally in his defence, as he would have done in mine, before old age palsied his faculties and powers of action. I must live--I must take patience. Yet a while must I bear and suffer. The time is not come for my release." That night, no eye was closed at Armentieres. The three poor, feeble, aged beings, so insufficient even to their own preservation, trembled with deeper terror when they remembered that Margaret was among them rather to defend than be defended; and scarcely had the morning dawned, when detachments of peasants from the environs came thronging to the chateau with tidings that the Prussians were advancing, spreading ruin and desolation on their path. But Margaret was now tranquilised into the calmness of despair. Even when the distant report of the enemy's artillery proclaimed their approach, she did. but move her lips in secret prayer; nor stirred--nor broke the silence she had preserved throughout that night of misery. One after another, harbingers of evil rushed in, announci...

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