Sandra Belloni -- Volume 6

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s cigar-light will shine; and the damsel thrice demure as a cover for her eagerness. Within a certain distance of one of the carriages, a man rode on horseback. The court of the castle was reached, and he turned aside, lingering to see whether he could get a view of the lighted steps. To effect his object, he dismounted and led his horse through the gates, turning from gravel to sward, to keep in the dusk. A very agile middle-aged gentleman was the first to appear under the portico-lamps, and he gav

allowed to choose his pace. Wilfrid had come from London to have sight of Emilia in the black-briony wreath: to see her, himself unseen, and go.

e could not, in any case, touched springs of weakness and pitying tenderness. From an eminence

ealousy; the image of himself as an outcast against the world

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intended to live for her, die for her, if need be, and carve out of the world all that she would require. Everything appears possible, on Hippogriff, when he is going; but it is a bad business to put the spur on so willing a beast. When he does not go of his own will;-when he sees that there are obstructions, it is best to jump off his ba

a distant notion of a singularity in his position there, the mark for

oticed that a gentleman was in their midst when he moved to get a light. One complained that he had to drive into Monmouth that night, by a road that sent him five miles out of his way, owing to a block-a great stone that had fallen from the hill. "You can't a

the stone had not been moved; and between them the name of Mr. Powys wa

with the exact bearings of the road and situation of the mass of stone, he at once repeated a part of what he had hear

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t. "I shall see her, in the teeth of my curst luck," he thought, picturing to himself the blessed spot where the mass of stone would lie; a

isn't, he'll feel on the safe side anyhow. At any rate, it's my only chance." And away he flew betwee