The Knight of St. John, Vol. 2 of 3: A Romance (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Knight of St. John, Vol. 2 of 3: A Romance

By a most violent effort over himself, he refrained from her society a whole day; then wrote her a few eonfusedlines to say he was going a short journey, and could not see her ere he went. In this note, he gave no account of whither he went, or why he wes going nor did he fix the period of his return. The in stant it was dispatched, he threw himself upon his horse, and went where chance impelled him.

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Giovanni had no sooner left Genoa than Cesario hastened to begin his meditated experiment upon Beatrice's affection. Not that he wanted proof of it, for himself: the alarm his friend's suspicion had conjured up, was already vanished. He had reflected, again and again, upon all his past intercourse with Beatrice, till imagination and memory combined, presented him with such overwhelming testimonies of almost public preference from her; that, whatever trifles testified differently, were cast from the scale.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.