The Countess Faustina, Tr. by A.E.I. (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. 1845 Excerpt: ...only, very cruel." "Doyou see any other gentleman grasp my hand every five minutes?" asked she, with some annoyance of manner. "No, but then none love you as I do ' "That is a delusion; I am dearer to all than to you; they all avoid teasing me, and making me uncomfortable." "But you might make an exception in favour of one " "And on what ground?" "That he loves you " "That does not suffice; the love must be returned." He looked at her.--She sat, leaning back in the corner of the sofa, winding the delicate gold chain of her eye glass round her fingers, and then setting it free again; her head inclined to one side, her gaze so absent, that Clement, who was on the point of falling at her feet to beg and implore her affection, became quite absent himself, and as he grew more and more composed, said half aloud--"No, she can never love " and left her. END OF vOL. I, A NOVEL. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OP THE COUNTESS IDA VON HAHN-HAHN. BY A. E. I. See where the stands t a mortal shape endued With lore and life, and light and deity--A metaphor of spring and youth and morning--A vision, like incarnate April, warning With smiles and tears. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: JOHN OLLIVIEB, 59, PALL MALL. THE COUNTESS FAUSTINA. CHAPTER I. Mengen also came the following day to complain of Faustina's invisibility--but quite in another tone. In his case it was really as if the sun had not shone upon him. A single hour, nay even a single half-hour spent with her, gave him a feeling of happiness that often lasted through the twenty-four hours. He could not see her as often as he wished, but though even a single minute became thus an VOL. II. B abiding joy, he was always longing for her perpetual ...