The Refugee in America: A Novel, Volumen2

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Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, 1832
 

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Página 182 - Long mourn'd his band whom none could mourn beside; And fair the monument they gave his bride: For him they raise not the .recording stone— His death yet dubious, deeds too widely known; He left a Corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
Página 67 - But in Caroline's little drawing-room, she seemed like a delicate flower that they had found in the forest, transplanted and cherished, till it had become fairer than any the garden could offer!
Página 6 - arranging her spit-curl in that particular manner, which at once explains the meaning of the rather particular appellation given by American ladies to the captivating little lock which adorns their temples." As long as the rowdy is thus at work in comparative harmlessness, on a spree or in a rumpus, he is very fond of designating his peculiar proceedings as cutting up something, apparently desirous to convey the idea that some mischief, some cutting...
Página 189 - But little more remains to be said. Notwithstanding the absurdity which most young people saw in such a marriage, Mr. Gordon and Lady Darcy were united a very few weeks after they had attended Emily to the altar. But if this was ridiculous, what will be said to the narrative being brought to its conclusion, and the lovely Caroline still free ? Is it that I have forgot my favourite ? Far from it.
Página 93 - But he found their whole manner changed, and it was perfectly evident that the presence of ladies rendered it impossible, in their opinion, to continue the conversation in the same strain.
Página 97 - She was quite unconscious of the extreme awkwardness of an English earl marrying a little creature, picked up in the wilds of America, and had not the slightest notion of the embarrassment likely to arrive, when the coachmaker's heraldic artist should ask, what arms were to be added to the noble shield of Darcy.
Página 187 - The first long evening, ay, and despite pale faces and fatigue, the greater part of the night was passed in that delightful confusion of questions asked, and answers not waited for, of narratives began but never ended ; of tears that celebrate excess of joy, and smiles that speak of sorrows past, which marks the perfection of contentment, setting ceremony, order, and common sense at defiance.
Página 91 - Gordon ; she ventured to look at Madame de Clairville, and the eloquent manner in which her friend took a pinch of snuff in answer to her appeal, almost atoned for the dulness of the meeting.
Página 90 - The glorious principles of our immortal republic decree, have decreed, and shall decree to the end of time, that the negro race belongs to us by indefeasible right.
Página 90 - And shall we, the light of the world, the glory of the earth, the only free-born people on the globe, shall we deign to follow, basely follow, mimic, imitate, and adopt the slavish feelings of such a country as Britain?

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