Inhaltsangabe
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.1895 Excerpt: ... himself with not having recognised then the true meaning of his feelings and the danger they involved to him. He could still have escaped the danger then, he thought, and wrenched himself away from the fatal charm, if not quite unscathed, at least with less of the bitterness of his present agony. As he stood now in the little music-room, waiting for her to come and bracing himself inwardly for the task he had set himself to accomplish, he recalled to his mind the old professor,s laughing words of warning, when he had communicated the Signora,s proposal to him, and smiled sadly as he thought of how completely they had been fulfilled. There was a miniature picture of the Signora standing on the piano, which he had often admired. He took it up and regarded it long and intently. Then, with an irresistible impulse, he pressed it to his lips and kissed it with passionate fervour. 'Who would have thought that it would be like this?, he murmured. Involuntarily his mind turned fox an instant to Margaret Welby. 'Poor Maggy,, he thought to himself. 'Can she have felt like this and suffered like this? And I was unaware of it?' The curtain which divided the music-room from the adjoining apartment rustled aside, and the Signora entered. She looked smiling and radiant; more radiant and more beautiful, it seemed to Seymour, than he had ever seen her look yet. It was all to be made as difficult for him as could be, he thought. He did not take his place at the piano at once, as he was accustomed to do on these days, but stood silent, while she turned over the leaves of some new music which had been sent to her to try. 'Signora,, he began, at last, with a strong effort to speak in a simple, every-day tone, ' I have a favour to ask of you., She looked up at him enquiringly, wi...
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