St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century, Band 2J. & J.D. Westcott, 1801 - 286 Seiten |
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Seite 114 - now a sainted spirit in the bosom of our father Abraham ! I call God to witness between us, that, if all my caution and vigilance can prevent it, not a hair of this child shall be injured ! Stranger, you little know by how strong a motive you have now engaged me to your cause. We poor Jews, hunted on the face of the earth, the abhorrence and execration of mankind, have nothing but family affections to support us under our multiplied disgraces ; and family affections are entwined with our existence,...
Seite 173 - Schedoni and his compeers in his love of solitude, his independence of companionship, and his superhuman aspect, but he is a figure who inspires awe and pity as well as terror. Beside this personage the other characters pale into insignificance: "He was more than six feet in stature . . . and he was built as if it had been a colossus, destined to sustain the weight of the starry heavens. His voice was like thunder . . .his head and chin were clothed with a thick and shaggy hair, in colour a dead-black....
Seite 120 - I knew not whether Mordecai's hour of rising were come ; if it were, he was careful not to disturb his guest. I put on the garments he had prepared ; I gazed upon the mirror he had left in my apartment. I can recollect no sensation in the course of my life so unexpected and surprising as what I felt at that moment. The evening before, I had seen my hair white, and my face ploughed with furrows; I looked fourscore. What I beheld now was totally different, yet altogether familiar; it was...
Seite 110 - ... I instantly proceeded to make myself master. While I was doing this, my involuntary host, who was extremely terrified at my procedure, nimbly attempted to slip by me, and rush into the street. With difficulty I caught hold of his arm, and, pulling him back, put the point of my rapier to his breast...
Seite 120 - ... of thirty-two years. I waked from a dream, troublesome and distressful beyond all description ; but it vanished, like the shades of night upon the burst of a glorious morning in July, and left not a trace behind.
Seite 115 - I applied myself to tranquillise the child, who had been somewhat alarmed at what she had heard and seen. This was no very difficult task. She presently left me to amuse herself with some playthings that lay scattered in a corner of the apartment. My heart was now comparatively at ease. I saw the powerful hold I had on...
Seite 254 - I was endowed with the faculty of speech, but was cut off from its proper and genuine use. I was utterly alone in the world, separated by an insurmountable barrier from every being of my species. No man could understand me; no man could sympathise with me; no man could form the remotest guess at what was passing in my breast. I had the use of words; I could address my fellow-beings; I could enter into dialogue with them. I could discourse of every indifferent thing that the universe contained; I...
Seite 115 - Having received his instructions, he immedietely set out to procure what I demanded. He took with him the key of the house ; and as soon as he was gone, I retired with the child into the inner apartment, and fastened the door. At first I applied myself to tranquillise the child, who had been somewhat alarmed at what she had heard and...
Seite 173 - He was more than six feet in stature . . . and he was built as if it had been a colossus, destined to sustain the weight of the starry heavens. His voice was like thunder . . .his head and chin were clothed with a thick and shaggy hair, in colour a dead-black. He had suffered considerable mutilation in the services through which he had passed . . . Bethlem Gabor, though universally respected for the honour and magnanimity of a soldier, was not less remarkable for habits of reserve and taciturnity....
Seite 112 - ... Spain, I would remit to him the sum of six hundred pistoles as an acknowledgment for his kindness. During the whole of my discourse I watched his countenance with the utmost minuteness. It gradually relaxed from the terror which had at first appeared in it, to expressions of compassion and condolence. I saw nothing that ought to alarm me. When it was his turn to speak, he earnestly assured me that he took a warm interest in my story, and would cheerfully perform everything I required. He was...