 By a certain association of ideas, he at times almost imagined himself a murderer. For years, also, a thought would occasionally recur, which, though he perceived all its folly and extravagance, he had not power to banish from his mind. It was a haunting...  Mosses from an Old Manse - Pagina 102door Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1882 - 580 pagina’s
...degree the mental horrors which punish ;he perpetrator of undiscovered crime. By a certain issociation of ideas, he at times almost imagined himself a murderer....yet sitting at the foot of the rock, on the withered forest leaves, alive, and awaiting his pledged assistance. These mental deceptions, however, came and... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 568 pagina’s
...was about to disclose the truth to Dorcas ; bu" pride, the fear of losing her affection, the dread oi universal scorn, forbade him to rectify this falsehood....yet sitting at the foot of the rock, on the withered forest leaves, alive, and awaiting his pledged assistance. These mental deceptions, however, came and... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pagina’s
...death " ; and, as my tale is not of love, it shall suffice to say that in the space of a few months Reuben became the husband of Dorcas Malvin. During...yet sitting at the foot of the rock, on the withered forest leaves, alive, and awaiting his pledged assistance. These mental deceptions, however, came and... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 450 pagina’s
...death "; and, as my tale is not of love, it shall suffice to say that in the space of a few months Reuben became the husband of Dorcas Malvin. During...yet sitting at the foot of the rock, on the withered forest leaves, alive, and awaiting his pledged assistance. These mental deceptions, however, came and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 582 pagina’s
...breast of Reuben Bourne an incommunicable thought — something which he was to conceal most needfully from her whom he most loved and trusted. He regretted,...yet sitting at the foot of the rock, on the withered forest leaves, alive, and awaiting his pledged assistance. These mental deceptions, however, came and... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 460 pagina’s
...gratuitous sacrifice of his own life, would have added only another and a needless agony to the las^ moments of the dying man ; but concealment had imparted...yet sitting at the foot of the rock, on the withered forest leaves, alive, and awaiting his pledged assistance. These mental deceptions, however, came and... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 398 pagina’s
...agony to the last moments of the dying man ; but concealmentjiad imparted to a justifiable act much of_ the secret effect of guilt ;)and Reuben, while reason...yet sitting at the foot of the rock, on the withered forest leaves, alive, and awaiting his pledged assistance. These mental deceptions, however, came and... | |
 | John Erskine - 1910 - 432 pagina’s
...into secret sin. "There was now in the breast of Reuben Bourne an incommunicable thought — something he was to conceal most heedfully from her whom he...perceived all its folly and extravagance, he had not the power to banish from his mind. It was a haunting and torturing fancy that his father-in-law was... | |
 | John Erskine - 1910 - 424 pagina’s
...secret effect of guilt; and Reuben, while reason told him that he had done right, experienced in no smaU degree the mental horrors which punish the perpetrator...perceived all its folly and extravagance, he had not the power to banish from his mind. It was a haunting and torturing fancy that his father-in-law was... | |
 | 1927 - 504 pagina’s
...death ' ; and, as my tale is not of love, it shall suffice to say that in the space of a few months Reuben became the husband of Dorcas Malvin. During...yet sitting at the foot of the rock, on the withered forest leaves, alive, and awaiting his pledged assistance. These mental deceptions, however, came and... | |
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