Little Classics: MysteryRossiter Johnson J.R. Osgood, 1875 |
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Page 223 - record as ever mortal hand had penned. It was the sad confession and continual exemplification of the shortcomings of the composite man, the spirit burdened with clay and working in matter, and of the despair that assails the higher nature at finding itself so miserably thwarted by the earthly part. Perhaps every man of
Page 230 - from her cheek, the parting breath of the now perfect woman passed into the atmosphere, and her soul, lingering a moment near her husband, took its heavenward flight. Then a hoarse, chuckling laugh was heard again ! Thus ever does the gross fatality of earth exult in its invariable
Page 224 - glow of its fire, which by the quantities of soot clustered above it seemed to have been burning for ages. There was a distilling apparatus in full operation. Around the room were retorts, tubes, cylinders, crucibles, and other apparatus of chemical research. An electrical machine stood ready for immediate use. The atmosphere felt oppressively
Page 221 - of the hours which her husband found it necessary to devote to the processes of combination and analysis, Georgiana turned over the volumes of his scientific library. In many dark old tomes she met with chapters full of romance and poetry. They were the works of the philosophers of the Middle Ages, such as Albertus Magnus,
Page 116 - mine." With that, we walked side by side to his box, entered it, closed the door, and sat down by the fire. " I have made up my mind, sir," he began, bending forward as soon as we were seated, and speaking in a tone but a little above a whisper,
Page 212 - I would have you recall that dream." The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one. Aylmer now remembered his dream. He had fancied himself with his servant
Page 215 - results. She permits us, indeed, to mar, but seldom to mend, and, like a jealous patentee, on no account to make. Now, however, Aylmer resumed these half-forgotten investigations; not, of course, with such hopes or wishes as first suggested them; but because
Page 112 - what was required of him, and of actual work — manual labor — he had next to none. To change that signal, to trim those lights, and to turn this iron handle now and then, was all he had to do under that head.- Regarding those many long and
Page 113 - himself a language down here, — if only to know it by sight, and to have formed his own crude ideas of its pronunciation, could be called learning it. He had also worked at fractious and decimals, and tried a little algebra ; but he was, and had been as a boy, a poor hand at figures. Was it necessary for
Page 210 - of ideal loveliness without the semblance of a flaw. After his marriage — for he thought little or nothing of the matter before —Aylmer discovered that this was the case with himself. Had she been less beautiful, — if Envy's self