The Professor: A TaleOxford University Press, 1857 - 360 pagina's William Crimsworth escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school. Also included in this edition is Emma, Charlotte Bronte's last, unfinished novel. Both works are drawn from the original Clarendon texts. |
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Pagina 187 - LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am.
Pagina 193 - NOVELISTS should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heroes and heroines to the heights of rapture — still seldomer sink them to the depths of despair; for if we rarely taste the...
Pagina 62 - Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such as no other assemblage of syllables, however sweet or classic, can produce. Belgium ! I repeat the word, now as I sit alone near midnight.
Pagina 10 - In face I resembled him, though I was not so handsome ; my features were less regular ; I had a darker eye, and a broader brow — in form I was greatly inferior — thinner, slighter, not so tall. As an animal, Edward excelled me far ; should he prove as paramount in mind as in person I must be a slave — for I must expect from him no lion-like generosity to one weaker than himself; his cold, avaricious eye, his stern, forbidding manner told me he would not spare. Had I then force of mind to cope...
Pagina 333 - I do not mean matrimonial chains," she added, correcting herself, as if she feared misinterpretation, " but social chains of some sort. The face is that of one who has made an effort, and a successful and triumphant effort, to wrest some vigorous and valued faculty from insupportable constraint ; and when Lucia's faculty got free, I am certain it spread wide pinions and carried her higher than — " she hesitated. " Than what ? " demanded Hunsden. " Than ' les convenances
Pagina 18 - Tim to find out whether my landlady 53 had any complaint to make on the score of my morals; she answered that she believed I was a very religious man, and asked Tim, in her turn, if he thought I had any intention of going into the Church some day; for, she said, she had had young curates to lodge in her house who were nothing equal to me for steadiness and quietness. Tim was "a religious man" himself; indeed, he was "a joined Methodist...
Pagina 114 - Path; she was sufficiently henevolent and obliging, but not well taught, nor well mannered; moreover, the plague-spot of dissimulation was in her also; honour and principle were unknown to her, she had scarcely heard their names. The least exceptionable pupil was the poor little Sylvie I have mentioned once before. Sylvie was gentle in manners, intelligent in mind; she was even sincere, as far as her religion would permit her to be so...
Pagina 6 - She spoke with a kind of lisp, not disagreeable, but childish. I soon saw also that there was a more than girlish — a somewhat infantine expression in her by no means small features ; this lisp and expression were, I have no doubt, a charm in Edward's eyes, and would be so to those of most men, but they were not to mine. I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her conversation ; it was merry, rather small ; by turns I saw vivacity,...
Pagina 107 - Reuter, did I find fresh occasions to compare the ideal with the real. What had I known of female character previously to my arrival at Brussels ? Precious little. And what was my notion of it ? Something vague, slight, gauzy, glittering ; now when I came in contact with it I found it to be a palpable substance enough ; very hard too sometimes, and often heavy ; there was metal in it, both lead and iron. Let the idealists, the dreamers about earthly angels and human flowers, just look here while...