The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer (Volume 3); The Story of Corisande (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. 1801. Excerpt: ... to betray herself, cautioufly avoided every topic that might lead the prisoner to speak of his family or his captivity. Yet it was but too evident that he suffered most severely in his person from his long detention; and Corisande with difficulty refrained from throwing herself on her knees before him, and bathing with her. tears those emaciated hands, which the damps and unwhole some consinement for so many years Teemed nearly to have crippled. The various thoughts that crowded on-her mind during this conversation, would, had it lasted much longer, have conquered her courage; and she would even then have betrayed herself, if the recollet, apprehensive of what might happen, had not put an end to the scene by rising to take his leave, which as he was about to do, De Beauvilliers thus addressed him: "My friend, I have been more than usually ill for three or sour days; some thing seems to tell me that I shall not long need your kindness. In meditating on my departure lrorn a world, which has to me been a sojourn of trial and of suffering, I seel myself ready, nay desirous, to leave it; yet I cannot forget that I may still have a daughter, the heiress, perhaps, of my sorrows and afflictions. My wife, my son, the youngest of my girls, all are gone--all have miserably perished Were I sure my lovely, my unhappy Corisande had shared their fate, sad as it is, I should submit; for death, the inevitable lot of all, is to some persons even in early youth a blefiing. The dead are beyond the reach of the calumniator and the oppressor; the dead have fulsilled their destiny, and can suffer no more: but, . if my Corisande, most lovely as she promised to be, yet lives, with all that susceptibility, with alt that sweetness, however guarded by understanding, good God to wha...