Heraline, Or, Opposite Proceedings Volume 3 (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. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ...' Better, better, let this posthumous wrath cool and die away, ' said the vicar: ' in the recent loss of your wife, Sir, your judgment may borrow too much from your feelings: --they will abate; and you may wish you had not indulged them, when you have lost the power of controlling their effects. Revenge is a very unprofitable speculation; for, the more complete our success, the worse for us.' Refusals to listen were made solemn by very coarse words; ' His wife, ' he said, ' had borne every thing, because she knew there was no use in showing one's teeth where one dare not bite, and she had been restrained in what he called doing herself justice, by the fear of the stoppage of her annuity, but she had always said to him in her long illness, George, I hope when I am dead, you will not forget how I have been treated by that woman-1 have told you every thing-Wanston has told me, times without number, where he was bom--he used to brag that he was a Roman--.1/ou have it in your power to prove the marriage---her father's will proves the forbidding her to marry a foreigner---therefore you will have the power in your own hand, and you are a fool if you do not make use of it. Now, Sir, ' concluded he, ' one does not like to be called a fool, you know.' It was in the power of Mr. Broderaye's manners to keep a little in order those of Mr. George Bray; and this power was increased by his being able to tell him, on his general knowledge, that such evidence as this hearsay-evidence founded upon hearsay, neither was, nor ought'to be, received further than in corroboration of better.' At least, ' thought the vicar, ' by...