The Half Sisters - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...most beautiful and graceful' things, and in the sweetest voice; but oh l no genuine tone,not one true word l My god, whom I bad adored, had vanished on the moment of becoming visible l Even the friend of my early days was no longer to be discerned; a gay graceful man of theworld was atmy feet! Ifelt that lhad again to subdue him, and I determined I would accomplish it. But, alas! an aftergame of love is harder even than an aftergame of reputation. I fear I have not succeeded. There is no more to tell you-what Ihave suffered in hope, tear, and anxiety, is not to be known. I cannot tell what l expect. I am hard, exigeame, variable--my temper is failing under this daily torture---he neither comes on nor goes off; he is jealous if I show any attention to others, but I rep member his love of old, and cannot be satisfied with his homage now. Oh," said She,ShivB1'ting with misery, '" I cannot live thus----I must know my fate--I must know his real feelings--I must know the best and the worst. Dear friend. in you, and your clear judgment, I trust to save me from myself. See Conrad, talk to him of me--note his words, his looks, his tones. You will not be deceived. Tell me, on your honour, all that passes. lf he be trifling with me, I can and will be free from him. Ihave staked too much, and am worth too much, to flatter his vanity. Let me know howl stand in regard to him; in you I shall have no self-deception to fear. You will do this," said she, beseechingly. "-You will not abandon me, now that I feel sinking?" She looked so utterly broken and wretched, the touching tone of her voice altogether unmanned him. At that instant, when no disguise remained, under which hope for himself could linger,...