Woodhill, Or, the Ways of Providence - 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.1856 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. NEW ACQUAINTANCES. TTIRGINIA, too, had something that troubled her, that 'secretly wore upon her. This was plainly to be seen in the harshness of her manner, in her irritation at trifles, and particularly in her ill-humour towards Alonzo, who generally had to suffer for the faults of the others. Clotilde conjectured truly, that it was uneasiness at Berghedorfs incomprehensible silence that tormented her. Indeed, Virginia, who was little accustomed to put the least restraint upon her feelings, did not long keep back the matter. "Why does he not come?" she cried. ""Why does he not write? Can it be that he does not love me any more? Can he have returned to his country? What is this mystery that is around him? Why is he not sincere, why so reserved towards me?" Thus one question chased the other, without Clotilda's being able to answer one of them. But she recognised clearly that Virginia's love was not, as she had at first thought, the mere play of a fancy heated by romance, but that her heart was filled with a burning, unbridled, powerful passion. Her uneasiness and longing soon increased to a morbid irritability, which made her insupportable to the other members of the household; but in the social circles which she continually so tight, the charm of her appearance seemed heightened by a certain exaltation in her eye, and while her heart was famishing, her vanity sought and found ample food. Clotilde tried in vain to influence her reason. "From the very fact of Berghedorf's staying away," she said, "I would conclude that he is an honourable man. He is poor, without prospects,--a foreigner. How could he hope to obtain you?" "I am rich enough for us both," replied Virginia. "In this free country every one who has merit has prospects. His mind will so...