Ethel, infinitely surprised, examined her guest with more care. In a few minutes she began to wonder how she came to think him plain. His deep-set, darkgrey eyes struck her as expressive, if not handsome. His features were delicately moulded, and his... Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'. - Page 211by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1835 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
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...whom he conversed. His voice was modulated by feeling, his language was fluent, graceful in its terms of expression, and original in the thoughts which...kindliness of spirit, at once displaced his abstraction, rendeiing him attentive, cordial, and gay." We have only left ourselves space to say that Lady Lodore... | |
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...Rome to Naples, in a great degree to participate in Edward's eagerness to see his cousin. CHAPTER XI Sad and troubled? How brave her anger shows! How it...abstraction, rendering him attentive, cordial, and gay. Never had Horatio Saville appeared to so little advantage as during his short tete-a-tete with... | |
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