The Two Destinies: A Novel, Volume 16Harper, 1893 - 312 páginas |
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answered apparition appeared asked bailiff boat Brandt cabin child climate of Scotland closed companion cottage creature Dame Dermody dark Dermody's discovered doctor door doubt dream Edinburgh Elfie Emanuel Swedenborg Enkhuizen excuse eyes face familiar spirits father feel felt George George Germaine Germaine green flag Greenwater hand happy head hear heard heart kiss lady lake leave Lerwick letter light lips living London long black veil looked lost MacGlue marriage married MARY GERMAINE Mary's mind Miss Dunross morning mother never night once pale passed person Perthshire pony poor question remember round Saint Anthony's seen sense shadow Shetland side silence Sir James sleep speak spirits spoke stood strange stranger summer-house tell thing thought tion told took turned veil voice waited walked wife WILKIE COLLINS woman words writing
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Página 78 - MacGloe, who looked at all mortal matters from the same immovably practical point of view, might really have its use, in my case, as a species of moral remedy. We waited until the dessert was on the table, and the servants had left the dining-room. Then, I told my story to the Scotch doctor as I have told it here ; and, that done, I opened the sketch-book to let him see the writing for himself. Had I turned to the wrong page ? I started to my feet, and held the book close to the light of the lamp...
Página 96 - Was the clew to the mysterious disappearance of the writing to be found here? Looking back by the light of later discoveries, I am inclined to think that it was. In three hours the lines traced by the apparition of her had vanished. In three hours she had come to herself, and had felt ashamed of the familiar manner in which she had communicated with me in her sleeping state. While she had trusted me in the trance — trusted me because her spirit was then free to recognize my spirit — the writing...
Página 122 - I can recover my place in your estimation," I said. " I am going to ask your pity for a man whose whole heart is yours, whose whole life is bound up in you." She started to her feet, and looked round her incredulously, as if doubting whether she had rightly heard and rightly interpreted my last words. Before I could speak again, she suddenly faced me, and struck her open hand on the table with a passionate resolution which I now saw in her for the first time. " Stop !" she cried. " There must be...
Página 74 - Her hand dropped from my bosom ; a momentary obscurity passed like a flying shadow over the bright daylight in the room. I looked for her when the light came back. She was gone. My consciousness of passing events returned. I saw the lengthening shadows outside, which told me that the evening was at hand. I saw the carriage approaching the summer-house to take us away. 1 felt my mother's hand on my arm, and heard her voice speaking to me anxiously. I was able to reply by a sign entreating her not...
Página 87 - But mind this," added the prudent doctor, "though I own I'm auxious to hear what comes of your expedition — understand at the same time, so far as the lady is concerned, that 1 wash my hands of the consequences." CHAPTER X. SAINT ANTHONY'S WELL. I STOOD on the rocky eminence in front of the ruins of Saint Anthony's Chapel, and looked on the magnificent view of Edinburgh and of the old Palace of Holyrood, bathed in the light of the full moon. The Well, as the doctor's instructions had informed me,...
Página 125 - My time is limited to-day. I must beg you and Mrs. Van Brandt to excuse me." I took leave of her as I spoke. She turned deadly pale when she shook hands with me at parting. Had she any open brutality to dread from Van Brandt as soon as my back was turned? The bare suspicion of it made my blood boil. But I thought of her. In her interests, the wise thing and the merciful thing to do was to conciliate the fellow before I left the house. " I am sorry not to be able to accept your invitation...
Página 107 - What happened after that, you know as well as I do. I may get on to the next morning — the morning when I so ungratefully left you at the inn by the river-side. " I had but one reason, sir, for going away by the first conveyance that I could find to take me, and this was the fear that Van Brandt might discover me if I remained in Perthshire. The letter that he had left on the table was full of expressions of love and remorse, to say nothing of excuses for his infamous behavior to me. He declared...
Página 80 - There's the irrational explanation for you. And, speaking for myself, I'm bound to add that I don't set a pin's value on that explanation either." Mr. MacGlue's sublime indifference to both sides of the question began to irritate me. "In plain words, doctor," I said, "you don't think the circumstances that I have mentioned to you worthy of serious investigation?" "I don't think serious investigation capable of dealing with the circumstances," answered the doctor. "Put it in that way, and you put...
Página 27 - ... my wish ! how patiently she had plied the needle over the traced lines of the pattern! how industriously she had labored through the dreary winter days ! and all for my sake ! What words could tell my pride, my gratitude, my happiness? I too forgot the presence of the Sibyl bending over her book. 1 took the little workwoman in my arms, and kissed her till I was fairly out of breath and could kiss no longer. "Mary!" I burst out, in the first heat of my enthusiasm, "my father is coming home to-day....
Página 287 - I granted the lequest impatiently. Elfie's restless desire to be always doing something, instead of amusing me, as usual, irritated me now. The interest that I had once felt in the charming little creature was all gone. An innocent love was a feeling that was stifled in the poisoned atmosphere of my mind that night. The money I had with me was mostly composed of notes of the Bank of England. Carefully keeping up appearances, 1 set aside the sum that would probably be required to take a traveler back...