The Devil Upon Two Sticks in England Volume 5-6; Being a Continuation of Le Diable Boiteux of Le Sage - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1791 Excerpt: ... IN ENGLAND. 41 'been our mutual care;--by" these, and 'by a brother's love,' added he, throwing his arms about my neck, ' I conjure 'you to aid me in attaining this great 'object of my heart,--without which, in 'the prime of his days, the life of your 'friend will be cut short by despair.'--When he was a little recovered from the violence of his grief, he informed me of his design to carry off the lady, who was of a noble family, from her monastic prison, either by force or stratagem, and to marry her the moment she was removed to a place of security. "To represent to him the danger of the undertaking, was to tell him of a shadow;--and to have expressed my honest feelings without reserve, would have been to separate myself from him.--At one time I thought of going to the British Minister, to consult him upon the business;--at another, I was determined to amuse him with hopes, and deceive him into protracting the business, till I could make his father acquainted with it.--I had it in contemplation also to convey a secret intelligence of what was going forward to the abbess of the convent.--I had even determined to oppose myself to the prosecution of this strange project, and boldly stand between my friend and the folly of undertaking the vain and hazardous enterprize, which he so fondly meditated.--In short, there was no practicable scheme of opposition which I did not at times, adopt,--and they all ended in my promising to engage in his design;--to assist him in carrying off his prize, or to share his fate. "Without entering into the particular reasons which might or might not, in your opinion, justify my conduct,--I shall proceed, Madam, to inform you, that 'I was now admitted to attend my friend to the grate of the convent, where I saw the the loveliest ...

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