Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady, Volume 5 |
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Pagina 292 - I cannot say that every one of our suggestions is literally true: — so, in good conscience, I ought not to marry under this License;] the License shall be void to all intents and Purposes, as if the same had not been granted. And in that case we...
Pagina 327 - I hope, however, that this employment will help to calm her spirits. JUST now Dorcas tells me that what she writes she tears, and throws the paper in fragments under the table, either as not knowing what she does, or disliking it: then gets up, wrings her hands, weeps, and shifts her seat all round the room : then returns to her table, sits down, and writes again.
Pagina 314 - The old dragon straddled up to her, with her arms kemboed again — her eye-brows erect, like the bristles upon a hog's back, and, scowling over her shortened nose, more than half hid her ferret eyes. Her mouth was distorted. She pouted out her blubber-lips, as if to bellows up wind and sputter into her horse-nostrils ; and her chin was curdled, and more than usually prominent with passion. With two...
Pagina 25 - What a void in my heart ! what a chilness in my blood, as if its circulation were arrested ! From her room to my own ; in the dining-room, and in and out of every place where I have seen the beloved of my heart, do I hurry ; in none can I tarry ; her lovely image in every one, in some lively attitude, rushing cruelly upon me, in differently remembered conversations.
Pagina 123 - ... might be supposed to lean to the side most injured ; and that, as I managed it, was to mine. A dear, silly soul, thought I at the time, to depend upon the goodness of her own heart, when the heart cannot be seen into but by its actions ; and she, to appearance, a runaway, an eloper, from a tender, a most indulgent husband ! — To neglect to cultivate the opinion of individuals, when the whole world is governed by appearance...
Pagina 335 - What you, or Mrs. Sinclair, or somebody, (I cannot tell who) have done to my poor head, you best know ; but I shall never' be what I was. My head is gone. I have wept away all my brain, 1 believe ; for I can weep no more.
Pagina 330 - But mind what followed : at last, some how, neglecting to satisfy its hungry maw, or having otherwise disobliged it on some occasion, it resumed its nature ; and on a sudden fell upon her, and tore her in pieces. — And who was most to blame, I pray ? The brute, or the lady ? The lady, surely ! — For what she did was out of nature, out of character, at least : what ;'/ did was in its own nature.