Disobedience; A Novel (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797 Excerpt: ...from him, but all in vain.--The cries, the prayers, the despair of the pcor victim, would have availed. her her nothing, had not Providence, at that moment, sent her beloved William to her rescue-Accident had brought him to the mouth of the cave; at the cry of distress, he rushed within it, and in the same moment, . and with one blow, he levelled Mr. Wynne at his feet. "Rascal ;--villain "--exclaimed Mr; Wynne.-Take back the words," cried William; "he is a rascal, he is a villain that oppresses innocence; not he that protects it.--My dear Mary my love my best love be not alarmed;. you. are fate j--these arms (cried he; embracing her) shall now, and ever be your safeguard. Maryvtrembling, almost fainting, suffered herself, unresisting, to be pressed, for a mo-ment, to the palpitating heart of William; but. recovering herself, " Oh let me begone," cried me, weeping; "be gone, for everj. ever, from this fatal cave, surely prepared for my undoing." "I will go with you," said William (wholly inattentive to the impotent rage and threats of Mr. Wynne) " and when with me, surely you will fear no harm-" And so saying, he wrapped one arm around her, and giving a violent push with the other to Mr. Wynne, who, just then recovering his feet, seemed to be aiming a blow at him, he rushed out of the cave with his rescued Mary, and bore away the prize, unmolested by his rival. r CHAP. NOTHING could be more humiliating or irritating than the state in which Williamleft Mr. Wynne.--Detected in an attempt to commit the basest action that can disgrace humanity, without the means to support himself in his villany, or retaliate the chastisement it had brought upon him. In personal strength, the gentleman was by no meap...