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. 1859 Excerpt: ... ot him. The event proved his words to be true. Yet Virginia was confined some days to her room--during which time Sir Clinton Carey had received letters, that summoned him to an interview with the British minister at Washington; and he now intimated his intended departure. Magdalene! The stream of her eternal life had ...
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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. 1859 Excerpt: ... ot him. The event proved his words to be true. Yet Virginia was confined some days to her room--during which time Sir Clinton Carey had received letters, that summoned him to an interview with the British minister at Washington; and he now intimated his intended departure. Magdalene! The stream of her eternal life had flowed on tediously and monotonously enough for the last two or three months, since her rejection by her grandfather. But hurried, troubled and continually passing through new, various, most bitter, and humiliating experiences, and making new revelations, had thundered the onward current of her soul. Magdalene stood before her easel, but her subject, "The Death of Marmion," did not grow beneath her hand. She mused--What could be the meaning of Sir Clinton Carey's singular manner toward her? Her experience in life, nor her reading, gave her a solution of the mystery. His manner toward her was that of an absolute neglect, or oversight. Even in Richmond he had never noticed any word or act of hers--never addressed his conversation to her--never by word or gesture given the slightest recognition of her existence; yet--how often in the drawing-room, even when it was full of people and he and she were separated by the width of the apartment, would she meet his dark eyes fixed full upon hers--what language? How much they said! What love, what reverence, what confidence they expressed and inspired! How distinctly, how forcibly, how eloquently, those eyes said--"Believe in me, Magdalene; I love you; I venerate you! but I must not seem to see you! Ay, Magdalene! wonder at me, if you will but believe in me! love me!" Thus she read them, and so she dreamed, and wondered, and believed and loved. The very inexplicability was the maze th...
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