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To die, was to him, who had so long contemplated the near approach of death, a familiar and transient evil; but to see, even in idea, his family involved in infamy, and in union with the murderer, was the stroke which pierced his heart to its center. He feared that the cruel tenderness of the mother would tempt Matilda to accept the offers of ...
3 de sept. de 2019 · The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) Ann Radcliffe is the founder of the gothic novel. This novel is no exception. The wicked baron murdered the good earl's father twelve years before the novel began. Only twelve years later, free from his mother's wishes, can the earl seek revenge.
9 de jun. de 2022 · The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823. Publication date 1994 Topics English fiction Publisher Stroud : A. Sutton Publishing ...
8 de jul. de 2022 · The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. A Highland story. by Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823. Publication date 1789 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics
Sorrowing my heart its destin’d woe bewails. Blest are the fairy hour, the twilight shade. Of Ev’ning, wand’ring thro’ her woodlands dear, Sweet the still sound that steals along the glade; ’Tis fancy wafts it, and her vot’ries hear. ’Tis fancy wafts it! — and how sweet the sound!
The length of the walk was beguiled by conversation. Osbert was interested by discovering in his companion a dignity of thought, and a course of sentiment similar to his own. On their way, they passed at some distance the castle of Dunbayne. This object gave to Osbert a bitter reflection, and drew from him a deep sigh.
Torn by the conflict of opposite interests, her brain was the seat of tumult, and wild dismay. Which ever way she looked, destruction closed the view. The murderer of the husband, now sought to murder the happiness of the daughter. On the sentence of the mother hung the final fate of the son.
