Victor's Triumph. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Читать онлайн.| Название | Victor's Triumph |
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| Автор произведения | Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth |
| Жанр | Языкознание |
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| isbn | 4064066160456 |
WEDDINGS AND WEDDING RECEPTIONS.
WHO KILLED HENRY LYTTON—FATE OF MARY GREY.
Chapter I.
SAMSON AND DELILAH.
Thus he grew
Tolerant of what he half disdained. And she,
Perceiving that she was but half disdained,
Began to break her arts with graver fits—
Turn red or pale, and often, when they met,
Sigh deeply, or, all-silent, gaze upon him
With such a fixed devotion, that the old man,
Though doubtful, felt the flattery, and at times
Would flatter his own wish, in age, for love,
And half believe her true.
—Tennyson.
As soon as the subtle siren was left alone in the drawing-room with the aged clergyman she began weaving her spells around him as successfully as did the beautiful enchantress Vivien around the sage Merlin.
Throwing her bewildering dark eyes up to his face she murmured in hurried tones:
"You will not betray me to this family? Oh, consider! I am so young and so helpless!"
"And so beautiful," added the old man under his breath, as he gazed with involuntary