The Cornhill Magazine, New Series Vol. III (English, Italian, Paperback)

Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1884 edition. Estratto: ...his own hand.' 'That must indeed be interesting, ' said Frank. His tone, however, was without excitement, and mechanical. His countenance, which had been full of friendship (though when turned to Margaret it had had, she thought, an expression of gentle melancholy), fell as he uttered the words; a gravity, little short of disapproval, seemed to take possession of it. 'Hang the fellow ' murmured Mr. Erin to himself, 'he's beginning to pick holes already.' 'It is the most marvellous and conclusive evidence, ' he went on aloud, 'of Shakespeare's adherence to the Protestant faith that heart can desire; but there's a word here that we are in doubt about. Just read the MS. and see if anything strikes you as anomalous.' Frank sat down to his task. The expression of the faces of the other three would have required the art of Hogarth himself to depict them. That of Margaret's was full of sorrow, pain for herself, and distress for Frank, and annoyance upon her uncle's account. How she regretted having made that stupid objection, though she had done it with a good motive, since she foresaw that it would presently be made by much less friendly critics Why could she not have been content to let matters take their own course, as Willie always was? On hia brow, on the other hand, there sat a certain serenity. From the very first his attitude with respect to his own discoveries had been one of philosophic indifference. Nothing ever roused him from it, not even when the scepticism of others took the most offensive form. He had not, he said, 'the learning requisite for the defence of "the faith" that was in him, ' and moreover it did not concern him to defend it. He was merely an...