With what unerring and terrible directness the long chain of circumstances led down from the thoughtless wrong committed by the father to the heartless injury inflicted on the child! These thoughts came to me, and others with them, which drew my mind... The Woman in White - Página 230por Wilkie Collins - 1861 - 572 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Dickens - 1860 - 638 páginas
...little Cumberland churchyard where Anne Catherick now lay buried. I thought of the bygone days when Í had met her by Mrs. Fairlie's grave, and met her for...Oh, if I could die, and be hidden and at rest with yon !" Little more than a year liad passed since she breathed that wish ; and how inscrutably, how... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1860 - 630 páginas
...Will you see her tomorrow at the (arm ? , Will you meet her in the garden at Limmeridge House ?" " Oh, if I could die, and be hidden and at rest with you .'" Her lips murmured the words elose ' n the grave-stone; murmured them in tones of passionate endearment,... | |
| Wilkie Collins - 1908 - 410 páginas
...answer, might well keep her silent for caution's sake, perhaps for her own pride's sake also—even assuming that she had the means, in his absence, of...breathed that wish; and how inscrutably, how awfully, it had been fulfilled! The words she had spoken to Laura by the shores of the lake, the very words had... | |
| Tamar Heller - 1992 - 222 páginas
...her second meeting with Hartright, when Anne tells him she wishes to be buried with Mrs. Fairlie — "Oh, if I could die, and be hidden and at rest with youl" (90) — her desire expresses not feminine passivity so much as what could be called feminine... | |
| Carolyn Dever - 1998 - 255 páginas
...structures of substitution that are structures of pleasure. Walter looks on as Anne speaks to the headstone: "'Oh, if I could die, and be hidden and at rest with j/ou\' Her lips murmured the words close on the grave-stone; murmured them in tones of passionate endearment,... | |
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