Zofloya; Or, the Moor. a Romance of the Fifteenth Century. in Three Volumes (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1806. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XXI. W DEGREESith unshrinking soul, and eye unabashed by the consciousness of guilt' Victoria joined at supper the innocent family circle. The high blush of animation flushed her dark cheek with more than usual fire j her eyes sparkled, r but it was with a fiend-like exulta-' tion, and her nerves seemed new strung for the execution of her dreadful purpose. Berenza rejoiced at her appearance, and little surmising the cause, approached, in the fulness of his heart, to embrace her; she returned it impatiently, and pushing him from her, surveyed him, with a kind of half smile, from head to foot: The unconscious Berenza mistook this for the embrace of eager love, repentant at past coldness, and the accompanying action for sportive gaiety only. But it was not soj Victoria hastily embraced him, from the cruel reflection that he 'would not long have the power of soliciting these marks of an affection that she felt not, nor she the hated task of granting them: --in pushing him from her, she but yielded to an overpowering impulse of the hatred which possessed her bosom; while gazing on -him with a smile, she consoled herself with the thought--how soon he would cease to be At supper she could not forbear sometimes casting her ardent eyes upon Henriquez, anticipating future delight; while his were fixed as usual upon the blooming fairy, Lilla. But her Victoria now regarded only with contempt, from the suggestion suggestion that she was an atom too easily crushed to cause a moment's painful thought. Yet she ferled not to pay attention to all; and the vivacity of her manner, the brilliancy of her wit, attracted, as it was wont to do, the pleased admiration of all towards her. Come, my life," cried the enraptured Berenza, raising the glass to his lips, "Here's to thy happiness, and the success of t...