Linda Tressel, by the author of 'Nina Balatka'. (Orig. publ. in 'Blackwood's magazine').W. Blackwood and sons, 1868 |
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agony asked assented Aunt Charlotte aunt Grüner aunt's presence bach believe better Black Bear blue frock brought burgomaster castaway chamber child cold Cologne comfort crushing dame Staubach dear declared disgrace door duty endeavoured escape eyes face Fanny Heisse fear feeling felt girl gone hands happy day hate heard heart Herr Molk hope hour husband journey to Augsburg kissed kitchen Linda knew Linda lay Linda Tressel looked Lord lover Ludovic Valcarm Madame Stau Madame Staubach magistrates marc marriage marry Peter Steinmarc Mary Magdalene Max Bogen mercy mind morning never niece night Nuremberg once parlour Peter Stein Poor Linda pray prayer present prison promise question red house Satan silent speak spoke stand stood sufferings sure tell terrible Tetchen thing thought told truth wicked wife WILLIAM BLACKWOOD window wish word young woman
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Page 210 - ... and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, whoever came into the world without having an innate idea of them?
Page 191 - With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death — That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns! — puzzles the will; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of.
Page 207 - Nurembergto this spot, thinking it possible that in this spot alone she might receive succour ; and now she stood there, fearing to raise the knocker on the door. She was a lamb indeed, whose fleece had been shorn very close ; and the shearing had been done all in the sacred name of religion ! It had been thought necessary that the vile desires of her human heart should be crushed within her bosom, and the crushing had brought her to this. She looked up in her desolation at the front of the house....
Page 196 - Undutiful ! So she called herself ; but had she not, in truth, paid duty to her aunt beyond that which one human being can in any case owe to another ? Are we to believe that the very soul of the offspring is to be at the disposition of the parent...
Page 133 - Oh heavens, how she hated him ! She could have stabbed him to the heart that moment, had the weapon been there, and had she possessed the physical energy necessary for such an enterprise. He was a thing to her so foul that all her feminine nature recoiled from the closeness of his presence, and her flesh crept as she felt that the same atmosphere encompassed them. And this man was to be her husband ! She must speak to him, speak out, speak very plainly. Could it be be possible that a man should wish...
Page 144 - What, uncle Peter?" said Ludovic, assuming a name which he had sometimes used in old days when he had wished to be impertinent to his relative. Peter Steinmarc was too much taken aback to have any speech ready on the occasion. "You don't say a word to congratulate me on having escaped from the hands of the Philistines.
Page 160 - Valcarm has again been here." "He is no vagabond," said Linda, turning upon him with full as much indignation as his own. " All the city knows him, and all the city knows you too. You are no better than you should be, and I wash my hands of you." " Let it be so," said Linda ;
Page 136 - Then the chord which had been strung so tightly was broken asunder. Her strength failed her, and she burst into tears. " I will make you pay dearly for all this one of these days, fraulein," said Peter, as, with his hands still in his pockets, he left the room. She watched him as he creaked down - stairs, and went into her aunt's apartments. For a moment she felt disposed to go and confront him there before her aunt. Together, the two of them, could not force her to marry him. But her courage failed...
Page 131 - ... prettiness, he was not on that account moved to doubt the value of his matrimonial prize; but there did come across his mind an idea that those eyes might perhaps bring with them some discomfort into his household. " I am very glad to see you, Linda,
Page 84 - THEY were whirled away through the dark cold night with the noise of the rattling train ever in their ears. Though there had been a railway running close by Nuremberg now for many years, Linda was not herself so well accustomed to travelling as will probably be most of those who will read this tale of her sufferings. Now and again in the day-time, and generally in fair weather, she had gone as far as Fiirth, and on one occasion even as far as...