The Two Destinies: A NovelHarper & Brothers, 1875 - 312 pagina's |
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answered apparition appeared arms asked bailiff boat Brandt cabin child closed companion cottage creature Dame Dermody decoy Dermody's discovered doctor door doubt dream ducks Edinburgh Elfie Emanuel Swedenborg Enkhuizen excuse eyes face familiar spirits father feel felt George George Germaine GEORGE NICHOLS Germaine green flag Greenwater Broad gunwale hand happy head hear heard heart kiss lady lake leave Lerwick letter light lips little Mary living London looked MacGlue marriage married MARY GERMAINE Mary's mind Miss Dunross morning mother never night once paling passed person Perthshire poor question remember round Saint Anthony's Scotland seen Shetland side silence Sir James speak spirits spoke stood strange stranger Suffolk summer-house tell thing thought tion told took turned veil voice waited walked wife WILKIE COLLINS woman words writing
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Pagina 24 - Now, or never, was my time to declare myself. Judging by appearances, I was still a boy. Judging by my own sensations, I had developed into a man at a moment's notice. "Papa," I said, "I am glad to see you home again. This is Mary Dermody. I am in love with her, and she is in love with me. I wish to marry her as soon as it is convenient to my mother and you.
Pagina 14 - ... watching over her, waking or sleeping, morning or night. Holding this faith, she was in no respect influenced by those grossly material ideas of modern growth which associate the presence of spiritual beings with clumsy conjuring tricks and monkey antics performed on tables and chairs. Dame Dermody's nobler superstition formed an integral part of her religious convictions—convictions which had long since found their chosen resting-place in the mystic doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. The only...
Pagina 79 - Was the clew to the mysterious disappearance of the writing to be found here? Looking back by the light of later discoveries, I am inclined to think that it was. In three hours the lines traced by the apparition of her had vanished. In three hours she had come to herself, and had felt ashamed of the familiar manner in which she had communicated with me in her sleeping state. While she had trusted me in the trance — trusted me because her spirit was then free to recognize my spirit — the writing...
Pagina 79 - from the time when you lay down on the bed to the time when you found yourself awake again ?" "'I think I can tell you," she replied. "It was the dinnertime of the house (as I said just now) when I went upstairs. Not long after I had come to myself I heard a church clock strike the hour. Reckoning from one time to the other, it must have been quite three hours from the time when I first lay down to the time when I got up again.
Pagina 59 - Her hand dropped from my bosom; a momentary obscurity passed like a flying shadow over the bright daylight in the room. I looked for her when the light came back. She was gone. My consciousness of passing events returned. I saw the lenorthenino; shadows outside, which told me that OO 7 the evening was at hand.
Pagina 59 - ... checked in my advance by an unexpected discovery. The summer-house was no longer empty as we had left it. A lady was seated at the table with my pencil in her hand, writing in my sketch-book! After waiting a moment, I advanced a few steps nearer to the door, and stopped again in breathless amazement. The stranger in the summer-house was now plainly revealed to me as the woman who had attempted to destroy herself from the bridge! There was no doubt about it. There was the dress;, there was the...