Excerpt: ... should have acted! Instead of leaving, with piteous protestations, I should have stayed near Reine, I should have surrounded her with tenderness. I should have expressed my passion with so much force that its flame should pass from my burning soul to hers, and she would have been forced to love me! Ah! If I had only thought! if I had dared! how different it would have been!" He jerked out his sentences with unrestrained frenzy. He seemed hardly to know what he was saying, or that he had a listener. Claudet ...
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Excerpt: ... should have acted! Instead of leaving, with piteous protestations, I should have stayed near Reine, I should have surrounded her with tenderness. I should have expressed my passion with so much force that its flame should pass from my burning soul to hers, and she would have been forced to love me! Ah! If I had only thought! if I had dared! how different it would have been!" He jerked out his sentences with unrestrained frenzy. He seemed hardly to know what he was saying, or that he had a listener. Claudet stood contemplating him in sullen silence: "Aha!" thought he, with bitter resignation; "I have sounded you at last. I know what is in the bottom of your heart." Manette, bringing in the breakfast, interrupted their colloquy, and both assumed an air of indifference, according to a tacit understanding that a prudent amount of caution should be observed in her presence. They ate hurriedly, and as soon as the cloth was removed, and they were again alone, Julien, glancing with an indefinable expression at Claudet, muttered savagely: "Well! what do you decide?" "I will tell you later," responded the other, briefly. He quitted the room abruptly, told Manette that he would not be home until late, and strode out across the fields, his dog following. He had taken his gun as a blind, but it was useless for Montagnard to raise his bark; Claudet allowed the hares to scamper away with out sending a single shot after them. He was busy inwardly recalling the details of the conversation he had had with his cousin. The situation now was simplified Julien was in love with Reine, and was vainly combating his overpowering passion. What reason had he for concealing his love? What motive or reasoning had induced him, when he was already secretly enamored of the girl, to push Claudet in front and interfere to procure her acceptance of him as a fiance? This point alone remained obscure. Was Julien carrying out certain theories of the respect due his position in society, ...
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Add this copy of A Woodland Queen (Reine Des Bois) to cart. $10.95, very good condition, Sold by Artis Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Calumet, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1910 by Current Literature Publishing Company.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. (12(357pp. Tissue covered frontispiece portrait. Gilt top. Purple cloth. Paper spine label rubbed & chipped along edges but still legible.
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Add this copy of The Woodland Queen to cart. $18.95, fair condition, Sold by Folded Corner Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Endicott, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1910 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Fair. No Jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6¾-7¾; Type: Ex-Library 1910 hardcover in decorative cloth. Significant age/use. Ex-library with attributes. Break in the binding at the copyright page; title page spread is repaired with a strip of thin book repair tape. Pages are generally clean. Some age/wear outside, concentrated at edges and high points, including some fraying at the extremities of the spine. 355 pages.
