The Mountain Decameron, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Nor did the love-taught nobleness of her re pugnance to marry him under a delusion, which she could so safely have done, want its due ad miration. Unhappy Septimus His feelings found no ventin speech, his sudden pain' s fury for he had long felt himself as her husband - no object on which it could be spent to relieve his bursting bosom. So covering his face with his hands, he only muttered, Say no more, this is misery I and hurried to his chamber, to throw himself on his bed. It presently occurred to him that his first interview with Nest would surely betray his knowledge of her fall, and the worst was to be feared from her desperation in learning the fate of her secret. He flew to his sister, charged her to invent a plausible excuse for his sudden leaving home, 'during Nest's short absence at a neighbour's house, and took horse instantly, resolved to wrestle with his new feelings in solitude. Oxford, the scene of his happiest hours, became the haunt of his misery.

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