Sandra Belloni -- Volume 6

nceived wilfully that she had seen an apparition, so strange, sudden, and

h her senses did not touch on it to shape it, she had the reflection in her: "After all, power is mine to bring him to my side." Almost it seemed to her that she had brought him from the grave. She sat hugging herself in the ca

too," added Merthyr, and so

a called for her bedroom candle in a thin, querulous voice t

ut no cheek was bent forward for the salute. The girl passed from am

at a loss," she answered, in a somew

th her, he said: "I could almost s

have not seen him, dear;

ink it

ine it just

e out and had left

unless to be without p

n by it? If he must see her, let him come here. But to dog a carriage at midnight, and to pref

eeded, and he pursued: "She must leave England at once," and

is task you have imposed

do w

atisfactory creature love you;" but her wo

moment: "I don't give

ar, to be dangerously b

of course, to be one- ideaed and obstinate. But I have not yet seen your savage guilty of a deceit. Her heart has been stirr

better?" said Georgian

etter," he replied, and

eorgiana. "And from you, Merthyr, to a girl such as she is! Me she satisfies less and less

in the strong conce

riminated, and fixed

"is akin to the doctrine o

. "A woman- even a girl-should remember what is due to herse

instance," as

me still no, not contemptible at all-but selfishness is the groundwork of it; a brilliant selfishness, I admit. I see that it shows its best feature, but is i

?" asked Merthyr. "Have you not been a

ve her argument attached to a single

e should be

ill you at least allow that sordid selfishness does l

schief than if she had the opposite vice of a

regarded as a child?" a

as to get rid of. She is overburdened with sensations that set her head on fire. Her solid, firm, and gentle heart

She stood by a dying bed like a statue. Her remark when we came into the air was, 'Death seems easy, if it were not so stifling!' Herself always! herself the centre of what she sees and feels! And again, she has no active desire to do good to any mortal thing.

ck with fever, would it be just to describe the character of one so situated as fretful,

nted that we are animal-only animals!" Georgiana burst out. You argue that at this season and at that

eguard to her at the most critical period of her life! Oh, yes! Whether she 'must' have

nt in her mind pressed to elicit some avowal of his personal feeling for the girl, toward whom Georgiana's disposition was kindlier than her words might lead one to think. He, on the other hand, talked with the distinct object of disguising

g his five minutes' absence from it: but Merthyr's peculiar Welsh delicacy kept him from doin

. Merthyr glanced down the contents. His countenance flashed with a

e in from

all be a boy again, and not the drumstick I am in this country. I have a letter from Marini. All Lombardy is prepared to rise, and this t

nder, as if she beheld another being from the one she had hithert

they trample us in the earth. Once up, we have Turin to back us. This I know. We shall have nothing but the Tedeschi to manage: and if they beat u

settent

bbe Boemi

e in Italy in four days. Four days, my Sandra! And Italy going to be free; Georgey, I'm fasting. And you will see all your old friends. All? Good God! No!- not all! Their blood shall nerve us. The Austrian thinks he wastes us by slaughter. With every dead ma

a man transformed, while Georgiana asked: "May Marini's letter be seen?" Her vi

Merthyr, who was himself eatin

yr's fingers, keeping her hand on it till he grew

about artillery

nt. If he said we could lay hands o

n standing in Georgiana's eyes, and then she dropped them pensively, while Merthyr recounted

t had dropped one hand flat on her plate, looking almost idiotic. She heard of Italy as of a distant place, known to her in ancient years.

her shoulder affectionately, saying: "Now! There won't be much packing to do. We

fell vacantly on Georgiana for help,

, save a look well nigh as

t eaten at all!

ook her h

d all your strength if you would be a match

a sudden outcry. "Yes, I will go to L

new light had fallen

ble, and he at once went out to issue directions fo

the girl. She perceived also a thing that no misery of her own had yet drawn from Emilia. It was a tear that fell heavily on the back of her hand. Soon the tears came in quick succession, while the girl tried to eat, and bit at s

sed her, and then said: "We have no time to lose. My

to articulate

have no

mechanical e

And Georgiana left her, secretly elated to feel that in this expedition it was she, and she alone, who was Merthyr's mate. What storm it was, and what conflic

und a twisted note from Georgiana, telling him that important matters had summoned

iana to whom he alluded; but the appearance of Captain Gambier, and the pronounced discomposure visible in the handsome face of the captain on his hearing of