| Abel Stevens - 1881 - 402 Seiten
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I •obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassier soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Oeneva, where,... | |
| 1881 - 884 Seiten
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lever, I obeyed as.a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." The deliberate misrepresentation of the course of events is proved by the date of the aforesaid letter,... | |
| 1881 - 842 Seiten
...was but a sorry fellow after all, though he makes the best of it in the tale. " My wound," he adds, " was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." But when he goes on to say that her father died, and that Susan had to come to Geneva and "earn a.... | |
| Haussonville (comte d') - 1882 - 344 Seiten
...and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the l ady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. If we are to believe Gibbon's story all... | |
| Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 414 Seiten
...That strange irony, sometimes unintentional with him, had grown into a habit ; and so he goes on : " My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided into friendship and esteem." Mr. Gibbon's tranquil version of the incident might have proved the authorised... | |
| 1883 - 836 Seiten
...life, which he found m England, had their usual effect ; his passion vanished. " My cure," he says, " was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity...and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." The probability, indeed, that he and Mdlle. Curchod would ever see each other again, must have seemed remote... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 Seiten
...son; my wound sensibly healed by time, absence, anil the habits of a new life. My cure was accelby e subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards his stipend died with him,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1890 - 866 Seiten
...sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habite of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. ' They remained constant friends in later life, and the former lover during a visit to Paris (1764)... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1890 - 848 Seiten
...he adds, ' After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.' They remained constant friends in later life, and the former lover during a visit to Paris (1765) visited... | |
| Thomas Hitchcock - 1891 - 256 Seiten
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterward died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by teaching young... | |
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