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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ... *t^he dancing was not yet begun, but the company was met, and the sprightly violins were employed to quicken its motions, when the Cleves party entered the ball room,'where the officers who gave the entertainment assured Lionel, with whom they were acquainted, that he and the young ladies had impatiently been expected. · I shall recompehce you for waiting/* answered he, in a whisper, " by introducing you to the rich heiress of Cleves, who now makes her first appearance from the nursery; though no! upon farther thoughts, I will only tell you she is one of our set, and leave it to your own ingenuity to find her out.'* While this was passing, Indiana, fluttering with all the secret triumph of conscious beauty, attended by Edgar, and guarded by Miss Margland, walked up the room, through a crowd of admiring spectators; in whom a new figure, without half her loveliness, would have excited the fame curiosity, that her extreme inexperience attributed tributed solely to her peculiar charms. Camilla and Eugenia followed rather as if in her train, and of her party; but Lionel kept entirely with the officers, insisting upon their guessing which was the heiress? to whom, while he purposely misled their conjectures, he urged them to make their court, by enumerating the present possessions of Sir Hugh, and her future expectations. / Camilla, however, passed not lohg unnoticed, though the splendor of Indiana's appearance cast her at first on the back grounds a circumstance which, by impressing her with a sensation of inferiority, divested her mind of all personal considerations, and gave to her air and countenance a graceful simplicity, a disengaged openness, and a guileless freedom from affectation, that rendered her, to the observant eye,...
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- EditoreTheClassics.us
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1230284338
- ISBN 13 9781230284330
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine70
- Valutazione libreria
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