Patronage
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Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1814 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson and co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / Regency Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there...
MoreVolume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1814 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson and co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / Regency Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ' ' . ' . CHAPTER XXIX Who would prize the tainted posies, " Which on ev'ry breast are worn ? " Who could pluck the spotless roses, " From their never touched thorn ?" The feeling expressed in these lines will be acknowledged by every man of sense and delicacy. " No such man ever prized a heart much hacknied in the ways of love." -- It was with exquisite pain, that Count Altenberg had heard all that had been said of Caroline -- he did not give credit to half the insinuations ; he despised those who made them, he knew that some of the ladies spoke from envy, others from the mere love of scandal, but still, altogether, an impression unfavorable to Caroline, or rather unfavorable to his passion for Caroline, was left on his mind. -- The idea that she had been suspected, the certainty that she had been talked of, that she had even been named as one who had coquetted with many admirers -- the notion that she had been in love -- passionately in love all this took from the freshness, the virgin modesty, the dignity, the charm, with which she had appeared to his imagination, and without which she could not have touched his heart. A heart not to be easily won -- a heart how unlikely to be won by such a woman as Miss Georgi- ana Falconer. In his own country, at the court where he resided, in the different parts of the continent which he had visited, Germany, Poland, Swisserla...
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