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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. 1894 Excerpt: ...Vienna. "She seems an embodiment of the young life of the West--bright, brave, and true! How nobly she devoted herself to Maitland! There is the royal seal of womanhood on her glorious brows! To see her nature unfold in its perfection, to go hand in hand with her through life, would alone ennoble a man! And I may not meet her again. If it were not for her millions, I might ask her to hear what another perhaps may use as the golden key to her heart! "No! There is no place now in my bosom for love! To serve England, to save my old acres from the spoiler, this must be my duty. And Isabel--am 1 under a new bond to her? Do I owe this 'essay perilous', to her womanly influence. I dare not tell her, for hawk-eyed Walton would force the truth piecemeal from her lips. I must seal my lips. If I do not come back in honor and success from distant Pamir, the story of my life is closed! If I do, I will have a station to offer to some other woman who may walk by my side in happier days!" Beauford's fancy recalled the earnest, dark-eyed American face, glowing in life's ambrosial morning, and yet, the trembling fingers of Isabel Dunham seemed to tighten once more on his arm! The voices of two eager voyagers caught his attention as the train halted ten miles from Vienna. The dusk of evening was dropping deeper shades over plain and forest. He could not see their faces, but the haughty, refined insolence of their tone indicated the pleasure-loving Viennese noble, returning from a day's hunting. "Lucky fellow! Oborski! A cavalry brigade, a separate command--what a signal favor of the Emperor! And he will marry the many-times millionaire American beauty! Is it a fact?" "My dear Rudolph! Nothing is sure where a woman is concerned! 'Souvent femme van...
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