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A Righted Wrong: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3)

By Edmund Yates

2020-09-14 06:39:31

Brief Extract: He had not waited for words in reply to his farewell; she 'could not have spoken them, and he knew it; and while she tried to make out his figure among the groups upon the deck, formed of those who were about to set forth upon the long ... Read more
Brief Extract: He had not waited for words in reply to his farewell; she 'could not have spoken them, and he knew it; and while she tried to make out his figure among the groups upon the deck, formed of those who were about to set forth upon the long perilous ocean voyage, and those who had come to bid them good-bye, some with hearts full of agony, a few careless and gay enough, a suffocating silence held her. But when at length she saw him for one brief moment as he went over the side to the boat waiting to take him to the shore so long familiar to her, but already, under the wonderful action of change, seeming strange and distant, the Spell was lifted off her, and a deep gasping sob burst from her lips. A very little longer, and the boat, with its solitary passenger, was a speck upon the water; and then she bowed her head. Less

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File size149.275 KB
Print pages245
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781330764794
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Edmund Yates
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Edmund Hodgson Yates (3 July 1831 – 20 May 1894) was a British journalist, novelist, and dramatist. He was born in Edinburgh to the actor and theatre manager Frederick Henry Yates and was educate...

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