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. 1902 Excerpt: ...SELF-POSSESSION INSTEAD of following Dora into the salon, Helen went back into her own room. On entering, she turned up the electric light, and like a somnambulist who, in his sleep, goes on with his favourite occupation, she seated herself at her dressing-table, drew the comb through her hair over and over again, ...
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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. 1902 Excerpt: ...SELF-POSSESSION INSTEAD of following Dora into the salon, Helen went back into her own room. On entering, she turned up the electric light, and like a somnambulist who, in his sleep, goes on with his favourite occupation, she seated herself at her dressing-table, drew the comb through her hair over and over again, played with the powder-puff, smelt the lavender salts, polished up her nails, and then, her mechanical activity gradually ceasing, she sat there motionless, the pupils of her eyes dilated and fixed on the mirror, but seeing nothing. Dora and Sant' Anna! These two names, formulating themselves simultaneously and time after time within her mind, caused her great suffering; and this was reflected strangely on her face. Their marriage would take place, then! She had not thought it would; and even now she was trying to believe it impossible. For the hundredth time she recalled the scene at Ouchy. That marvellous registering instrument which we call Memory rendered to her Lelo's ardent expression, and all the words he had uttered. Dora little imagined that Sant' Anna had been in love with her, Helen, and that he had entered her room one evening like a thief! If she were to be told that, would she marry him? Perhaps not; but there--who could tell!--for she loved him foolishly! What had Sant' Anna said to her at the Villa Panfili? She could imagine him bending towards the young girl, speaking in his fervent voice, enveloping her with his magnetic gaze. This vision was so painful to Mrs. Ronald that she got up and walked about, in order to dispel it. She looked at herself in the glass over her mantel-shelf, and, suddenly taken with a shivering fit, which she attributed to the cold, she rang for a fire to be made. As soon as it was lighted she held her rosy...
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Add this copy of Eve Triumphant to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Main Street Fine Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galena, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1902 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.