 | Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
 | 1875 - 822 pages
...destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeved as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life." Mademoiselle Curchod's father dying, the girl retired to Geneva, and supported her mother by teaching.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 862 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1878 - 642 pages
...young man, in words which remind us of Sheridan's Governor of Tilbury Fort, " after a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." The struggle would seem not to have been too severe ; and we shall find him a warm and intimate friend... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 336 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
 | Peter Anton - Agriculture - 1880 - 268 pages
...strange alliance, and that, without his .consent, I was destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. 'My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1881 - 402 pages
...alliance, and that, without his consent, I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I •obeyed...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My -cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1881 - 820 pages
...strange alliance, and that without his consent I was destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
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After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. 
