Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Том 1J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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Страница 217 - ... creature ! struck dead in the very act of sacrificing at the shrine of female vanity ! — She must have been dead for some time, perhaps for twenty minutes or half an hour, when I arrived, for nearly all the animal heat had deserted the body, which was rapidly stiffening. I attempted, but in vain, to draw a little blood from the arm. Two or three women present proceeded to remove the corpse to the bed, for the purpose of laying it out. What strange passiveness ! No resistance offered to them...
Страница 50 - I shall not easily forget an observation she made at the last visit I paid her. She was alluding, one morning, distantly and delicately to the personal disfigurement she had suffered. I, of course, said all that was soothing.
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Страница 214 - She heard the wind howling so dismally without that she drew together the coals of her brisk fire, and was laying down the poker, when the clock of church struck the second quarter after nine. " Why, what in the world can Charlotte be doing all this while?" she again inquired. She listened — " I have not heard her moving for the last three quarters of an hour ! I'll call the maid and ask.
Страница 21 - ... thinking of the wretchedness of him who was sitting by ! I could not prevent the tears of anguish from gushing forth. I thought of Emily — of her delicate and interesting, but, to me, melancholy situation. I could not bear the thought of returning home to encounter her affectionate looks — her meek and gentle resignation to her bitter fortunes. Why had I married her, without first having considered whether I could support her? Passionately fond of me , as I well knew she was, could she avoid...