Novels [Of George Eliot] Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... he would leave her, and she must go home. It takes very little water to make a perfect pool for a tmy fish, where it will find its world and panidise all in one, and never have a presentiment of the dry bank. The fretted summer shade, and stillness, and the gentle breathing of some loved life near, --it would be paradise to us all, if eager thought, the strong ungel with the implacable brow, had not long since elosed the gates. l1 really was a long while before the waking came, --before the long dark eyes opened at Tessa, at first with a little surprise, and then with a smile, which was soon quenched by some prcoecupying thought. Tito's dceper slcep haa broken into a doze, in whieh he felt himself in the Via de' Bardi, explaining his failure to appear at the appointed time. The elear images of that doze urged him to start up at j once to a sitting posture, and as he stretehed his arms and shook his cap, he said: --"Tessa, little one, you have let me slcep too long. My hunger and the shadows together tell me that the sun j has done much travel since I fell aslcep. I must lose no more time. Addio," he ended, patting her check with one hand, and settling his cap with the other. She said nothing, but there were signs in her face which made him j speak again in as serious and chiding a tone as he could command: --"Now, Tessa, you must not ery. I shall be angry; I shall not love you if you ery. You must go home to your black-faced kid, or if you like you may go back to the gate and sce the horses start. But I can stay with you no longer, and if you ery 1 shall think you are troublesome to me." The rising tears were checked by terror at this change in Tito's voice. Tessa turned very pale, and sat in trembling silence, with her...