The Tempter and the Tempted Volume . 2 (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. 1842 Excerpt: ...had cherished through gloom and sorrow, with a faith and fervour woman's heart can alone feel or understand--with a worship that none but a pure and undivided heart could lavish on its idol--that when her own fate left her free and unfettered--when to admit this impassioned feeling no longer called forth her own contrition, nor merited another's censure, --she should discover how unworthy had been the idol of H2 that shrine in which her heart had treasured it? Caroline was not one to temporise with herself. She knew that, as a wife, she had allowed her thoughts to stray from the straight and narrow path that leads to peace; and, though broken-hearted, she meekly bowed her head, and looked upon this wreck of all her hopes as an atonement for her fault. Her heart had no fellowship with the Pharisee--she sought not to extenuate her fault by enumerating the many she beheld more guilty around her: like the poor Publican, she acknowledged her sin, and prayed to Heaven for pardon and resignation. Her newly acquired reserve was most painful to Castella; and Admiral de Magny's arrival was a great relief to his feelings--to those feelings he dared not avow, but could not entirely conceal. The Admiral could not be long absent from his public duties j and he wished Caroline to begin her journey as soon as she felt equal to the fatigue. To quit Strasburg was the only wish she was now sensible of. She fancied in no other place could she be so unhappy as there. All places were alike, as far as the future was concerned--that presented nothing but a blank. But there were associations of thought and recollection connected with England, that made her desire to return thither. Even in Paris, where she had thought herself so unhappy, some bright moments shot across her memory. H...