 Villiers sat, reading. His first emotion was shame when he saw Ethel enter. There was no accord between her spotless loveliness and his squalid prison-room. Any one who has seen a sunbeam suddenly enter and light up a scene of housewifely neglect, and...  Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'. - Page 301by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1835 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
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...destination never once occurred to her. They drove through the long interminable suburbs - through Piccadilly and the Strand. Ethel's cheeks flushed...with him, she reaped the reward of all her previous anxiety. There was no repining in her thoughts, no dejection in her manner; Villiers could read in... | |
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...neglect, and vulgar discomfort, and felt how obtrusive it rendered all that might be ha lf -forgotten in the shade, can picture how the simple elegance...with him, she reaped the reward of all her previous anxiety. There was no repining in her thoughts, no dejection in her manner; Villiers could read in... | |
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...the simple elegance of Ethel displayed yet more distinctly to her husband the worse than beggar91 ly scene in which she found him. His cheeks flushed,...loudness. She felt pained for him, but for herself it 92 was as if the world and all its cares were locked out, and as if in this near association with him,... | |
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