The Exemplary Novels - 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. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...have passed many a merry day there in better times. Go on, Ricardo." whilst my love for her grew to such an extreme, that I should have deemed my fate most blest if she had killed me by he!' scorn, provided she did not bestow open, though maidenly, favours on Cornelio. Imagine the anguish of my soul, thus lacerated by her disdain, and tortured by the most 011191 jealousy. Leonisa's father and mother winked at her preference for Cornelio, believing, as they well might, that the youth, fascinated by her incomparable beauty, Would 011059 her for his wife, and thus they should have a wealthier sonin-law than myself. That he might have been; but they would not have had one (without arrogance, be it said) of better birth than myself, or of nobler sentiments or more approved Worth. " Well, in the course of my wooing, I learned one day last May, that is to say, about a year ago, that Leonisa and her parents, Cornelio and his, accompanied by all their'relations and servants had gone to enjoy themselves in Ascanio's garden, close to the sea, shore on the road to the Saltpits. "The moment I received information of this party, such an infernal fury of jealousy possessed my soul that I was utterly distraught, as you will see, by whit I st;"aigl: it';ly did; and that was to go to the garden, w ere oun tie whole party taking their pleasure, and Cornelio and Leonisa seated together under a nopal-tree, a little apart from the rest. "What were their sensations on seeing me Id know not, all I know is that m own were such that a clou came over my sight, and I waslike a statue without power of speech or motion. But this torpor soon gave way to eholer, which roused my heart's blood, and unlocked my hands and...