Author: William GodwinPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259531371
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Excerpt from St. Leon, Vol. 2 of 2: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century Having rejoined the remainder of my family, we set out togetherfor the plains of Italy. My first interview with Marguerite after my return from Dresden, had been melancholy. But our situation was now such as togive additional anguish to her serious thoughts She had then regarded me as ambiguous, mysterious and impede. Trable, qualities from which the frankness of her nature spontaneously revolted; she saw in me the destroyer of her son, the idol of her heart; she believed me an alche mist, a character which she viewed as base, degrading and insensible; she had heard that rumour had been busy with my fame. But now she. Saw in me a man of blasp cd reputation, arraigned and imprisoned for robbery and murder. She did not credit these imputations. Butdsd the ingenuous and noble-minded Marguerite de Dam ville ever think to find herself allied to a being thus load ed with the world's abhorrence, that she should be com pelled to honour With the sacred name of husband a fugi tive, a prison-breaker and an outlaw? If I had suffered these things in the defence of my children, my religion 0 my country, the case would have. Been My defies. V' 110 A Eu. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
