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. 1872 Excerpt: ...Her thoughts flew back again to their happy home in Italy, and how it had been so cruelly broken up by the absence of her father and Herbert. Where was that father now? She threw herself down wearily upon the seat, as we have said, and paused for a moment to collect her scattered thoughts; then, lifting her eyes to ...
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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. 1872 Excerpt: ...Her thoughts flew back again to their happy home in Italy, and how it had been so cruelly broken up by the absence of her father and Herbert. Where was that father now? She threw herself down wearily upon the seat, as we have said, and paused for a moment to collect her scattered thoughts; then, lifting her eyes to Herbert, she burst forth in a half-frenzied voice--"No! no! it cannot be! You would not do this! Tell me--tell me, by what name are you known at that house V "Listen, Lucy," he answered, with the stern voice and settled look of desperate resolution. "It is useless to attempt to deceive you. I understand it now--you are Emily's companion, whom she told me she had engaged. I never asked her your name--would to Heaven that I had! There is destiny--fate--Providence--or devilry in this! But you shall know all, or at least enough to make you keep silent" "Keep silent!" she repeated, her colour deepening with indignation. "Then I am to think the worst; and you are" "Count Francisco di Viviani!" Then in a moment she comprehended the full extent of his faithlessness towards herself; but any sudden feeling of selfish indignation was absorbed in a thought that flashed to her brain. "And my father?" she cried, clasping her hands, and looking up into his face with a beseeching look. "Is he alive? What has become of him?" "He is alive!" "But is he--is he--an accomplice in this infamous scheme of yours? But no! I need not ask; my father would never" "Compose yourself, Lucy; your father knows nothing of my proceedings," responded Herbert, coldly. "Thank Heaven!" the unhappy girl ejaculated in fervent tones and with a long-drawn sigh. 'But what is yo...
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