Griffith Gaunt, Or, JealousyFields, Osgood, & Company, 1869 - 225 páginas |
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Página 188 - You shall well and truly try, and true deliverance make, between our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, whom you shall have in charge, and a true verdict give, according to the evidence. So help you God.
Página 88 - This day he was more eloquent than ever : and he delivered a beautiful passage concerning those who do good in secret. In uttering these eloquent sentences his cheek glowed, and he could not deny himself the- pleasure of looking down at the lovely face that was turned up to him. Probably his look was more expressive than he intended : the celestial eyes sank under it, and were abashed, and the fair cheek burned : and then so did Leonard's at that. Thus, subtly yet effectually, did these . two minds...
Página 186 - She held up her hand, and he recited the indictment, which charged that, not having the fear of God before her eyes, but being moved by the instigation of the Devil...
Página 55 - Grange, in the county of Cumberland, Esquire, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding — thanks be to God — do make this my last will and testament as follows : — First I commit my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth from which it came. I desire my executors to discharge my funeral and testamentary expenses, my just debts, and the legacies hereinafter bequeathed, out of my personal estate.
Página 55 - To my friend Edward Peyton, of Peyton Hall, Esquire, ten guineas to buy a mourning ring. "To the worshipful gentlemen and ladies who shall follow my body to the grave, ten guineas each, to buy a mourning ring." " To my wife's cousin, Griffith Gaunt, I give and bequeath the sum of two thousand pounds, the same to be paid to him within one calendar month from the date of my decease. " And as to all my messuages, or tenements, farms, lands, hereditaments, and real estate, of what nature or what, kind...
Página 123 - IN vain you tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas! what winds can happy prove, That bear me far from what I love? Alas! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain? Be gentle, and in pity choose To wish the wildest tempests loose: That, thrown again upon the coast, Where first my...
Página 187 - The Judge looked towards Mr. Serjeant Wiltshire, who was the leader on the other side. He rose instantly and replied to this purpose : " The prisoner is misinformed. The truth is, that from time immemorial, and down to the other day, a person indicted for a capital offence was never allowed counsel at all, except to matters of law, and these must be started by himself. By recent practice the rule hath been so far relaxed that counsel have sometimes been permitted to examine and crossexamine witnesses...
Página 109 - Griffith, don't deny me what I ask you, with my arm round your neck, dearest It is no fancy. I want to be alone with you, far from this place where coolness has come between us." And with this she fell to crying and sobbing, and straining him tight to her bosom, as if she feared to lose him, or be taken from him. Griffith kissed her, and told her to cheer up, he was not the man to deny her anything. "Just let me get my hay in," said he, " and I 'll take you to Rome, if you like.
Página 40 - Nay, it is nothing," said he, " I shoot far better with my left hand than my right. Give me another pistol, and let me have fair play. He has hit me. And now I'll hit him." Both seconds agreed this was impossible. " It is the chance of war," said Major Rickards : " you cannot be allowed to take a cool shot at Mr. Neville. If you fire again, so must he." " The affair may very well end here," said Mr. Hammersley. " I understand there was some provocation on our side ; and on behalf of the party insulted...
Página 40 - I mean to," said Griffith. The seconds withdrew, and the men eyed each other : Griffith dogged and pale, as before, Neville not nearly so self-assured ; Griffith's bullet, in grazing him, had produced the effect of a sharp, cold, current of air no wider than a knife. It was like death's icy fore-finger laid on his head, to mark him for the next shot ; as men mark a tree ; then come again and fell it. " One two three !" And Griffith's pistol missed fire, but Neville's went off, and Griffith's arm...