Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy - Libros -  - 9798698158653 - 4 de enero de 2021
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Desperate Remedies

Book Excerpt: ...appeared to him no less than perfection throughout--transcending her rural rivals in very nature. Graye did a thing the blissfulness of which was only eclipsed by its hazardousness. He loved her at first sight. His introductions had led him into contact with Cytherea and her parents two or three times on the first week of his arrival in London, and accident and a lover's contrivance brought them together as frequently the week following. The parents liked young Graye, and having few friends (for their equals in blood were their superiors in position), he was received on very generous terms. His passion for Cytherea grew not only strong, but ineffably exalted: she, without positively encouraging him, tacitly assented to his schemes for being near her. Her father and mother seemed to have lost all confidence in nobility of birth, without money to give effect to its presence, and looked upon the budding consequence of the young people's reciprocal glances with placidity, if not actual favour. Graye's...

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Publicado 4 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798698158653
Páginas 350
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 19 mm   ·   467 g
Lengua Inglés  

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