Inhaltsangabe
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.1857 Excerpt: ... A HARMLESS DRAUGHT. 119 merely said,--" Boy Jem, put up the pump, and come along"--the doctor being no more a doctor than the head-waiter, but an apothecary so dignified by courtesy; and away marched the whole body of attendants, all more or less disappointed at there being no probability of a fatal result. "Fanny," said Langley, "this most important incident of my life has elicited a truth upon which my future happiness depends. Long as we have known each other, constant as has been our intercourse, and unreserved as has been our communication, I never believed that I had inspired you with a feeling beyond that of friendship and esteem; your conduct in this trying crisis convinces me that you are the being on earth to secure my earthly felicity." Mottingham and his wife exchanged looks of mutual satisfaction, and Fanny, nothing loth, suffered her head, aching as it was from excitement, to fall upon Langley's shoulder--another word was needless. "Mottingham," said Langley, as he clasped the trembling girl to his heart, "I am sure you meant for the best when you counselled me to rid myself of my cares by quitting a world of woe, which now promises to be a world of comfort. Now, indeed, do I truly rejoice that I did not swallow the fatal draught." "So do I," said Mottingham, "because, by a strange combination of events, things have all turned out as we could have wished; but as to the poison, my dear fellow, you' might have taken it with the most perfect safety; for, excepting a little remarkably wellpowdered sugar, which I brought in my pocket, the dreadful potion was nothing but a little Wine and Water!" THE ATONEMENT. It rarely happens on visiting different towns and villages, scattered over the face of the civilised world, that one does not find some one ...
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