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. 1911 Excerpt: ...to cement relations which the Duc de Beauchamps wisl to establish with Matilda. It was little m than a week when the young Duke decla himself, conditionally, bien entendu upon satisfactory result of the relative time he to be in the city. These purposeful ameni continued four weeks before Monsieur de Be champs received ...
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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. 1911 Excerpt: ...to cement relations which the Duc de Beauchamps wisl to establish with Matilda. It was little m than a week when the young Duke decla himself, conditionally, bien entendu upon satisfactory result of the relative time he to be in the city. These purposeful ameni continued four weeks before Monsieur de Be champs received his acceptance. Matilda desired the interview with Benedict Travis fore framing her final answer, delaying it till end of February. During this time, Benedict was endurin life of humane, but cruel torture; and miracle of it was that he enjoyed it. He n failed to put in an appearance, no matter what the time, day, or weather. He would have deemed it an act of cowardliness, unworthy of him, to have absented himself. For he gloried in his martyrdom like the saints of old whose exalted belief told them their sufferings were but the ante-chamber through which they made a speedy entrance into Heaven. The difference between the two men from whom Matilda was making her choice was not fundamentally great. A duke, or earl, or prince derives his gentlemanliness from countless generations of ancestors. He knows no other life. From the beginning he has been taught and trained to it. But a man like Benedict Travis draws his chivalry and courtesy from the depths of his own large manhood, itself induced from like predecessors; from a heart actuated only by the highest and noblest impulses; from the air and soil of freedom which he is constantly breathing. Benedict was not spending his days in chanting threnodies. On the contrary he concealed the true state of his feelings from every one, even from Helene Doyle. He assumed, better to decoy his friends and his fellows, not Helene's invincible, inimitable smile, but one closely resembling it. When these two met...
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