Margaret's Ordeal; Or Life-Problems, Tr. from the Germ. of E. Juncker, by A.L. Wister (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. 1883 Excerpt: ...upon the woman whose hand was clasped in his, and whose head reclined upon his shoulder. A sharp discord, like that made by a broken string, rang through the room, and with absolute horror in her face, the young wife staggered to the door leading into the hall. "Good heavens, madameI" exclaimed the General, laying his hand on the latch of the door before she could reach it, " you will not break off that glorious song so abruptly, and certainly will not go into the cold air without while you are so heated 1" "Let me go," she said, thrusting aside his hand, "I feel giddy and faint, and must have airI" Like wild bursts of laughter the roulades and trills that Pastor Friedmann evoked from the old piano sounded behind her, as she hastily wrapped her cloak about her and rushed from the hall into the open air like some hunted deer that has received its death-wound. An icy wind blew flakes of snow into her face, but without caring whither she went, she hurried along the highway as though life and death depended upon her speed. Everything--everything was a lie--and the exalted love which should outlive all time could be thus sacrificed to a fleeting whim. "And I really loved that man I I believed in him I" she said several times aloud to herself. She never felt her skirts grow heavy with the damp snow, nor knew that her feet were numb with cold--she only knew that she was suffering, and no one cared, no one pitied her. For an instant she thought of hastening to Elizabeth and telling her of the monstrous thing, but then came the question, Wherefore 1 When she had finished Elizabeth.would demonstrate, in her calm, self-possessed way, that Gunther must necessarily fail somewhere, in fulfilment of the law of human imperf...

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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. 1883 Excerpt: ...upon the woman whose hand was clasped in his, and whose head reclined upon his shoulder. A sharp discord, like that made by a broken string, rang through the room, and with absolute horror in her face, the young wife staggered to the door leading into the hall. "Good heavens, madameI" exclaimed the General, laying his hand on the latch of the door before she could reach it, " you will not break off that glorious song so abruptly, and certainly will not go into the cold air without while you are so heated 1" "Let me go," she said, thrusting aside his hand, "I feel giddy and faint, and must have airI" Like wild bursts of laughter the roulades and trills that Pastor Friedmann evoked from the old piano sounded behind her, as she hastily wrapped her cloak about her and rushed from the hall into the open air like some hunted deer that has received its death-wound. An icy wind blew flakes of snow into her face, but without caring whither she went, she hurried along the highway as though life and death depended upon her speed. Everything--everything was a lie--and the exalted love which should outlive all time could be thus sacrificed to a fleeting whim. "And I really loved that man I I believed in him I" she said several times aloud to herself. She never felt her skirts grow heavy with the damp snow, nor knew that her feet were numb with cold--she only knew that she was suffering, and no one cared, no one pitied her. For an instant she thought of hastening to Elizabeth and telling her of the monstrous thing, but then came the question, Wherefore 1 When she had finished Elizabeth.would demonstrate, in her calm, self-possessed way, that Gunther must necessarily fail somewhere, in fulfilment of the law of human imperf...

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Rarebooksclub.com

Country of origin

United States

Release date

May 2012

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First published

May 2012

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 5mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

100

ISBN-13

978-1-231-25245-1

Barcode

9781231252451

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1-231-25245-6



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