When I was in India, I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the governor-general, and the secretary of government, and the commander-in-chief, and their wives. I had Clarissa with me : and, as soon as they began to read, the whole station... Clarissa, ed. by E.S. Dallas - Pagina vdoor Samuel Richardson - 1868Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 pagina’s
...began to read it, the whole station was in a passion of excitement about Miss Harlowe and the scoundrel Lovelace. The governor's wife seized the book, and the secretary waited for it, and the chief justice could not read it for tears. He acted the whole scene as he paced up and down the Athenaeum... | |
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