Young Love: A Novel, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1844 |
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Page 166 - Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders you give. I only ask a prompt decision, that I may at once give the necessary orders. It will not do to delay longer.
Page 182 - I regret that it will not be possible for me to accept your invitation for Tuesday next.
Page 179 - It is as much for your sake as my own that I wish to conceal our marriage. I could not endure to think of all you would undergo if I left you in the claws of that harpy ! " He continued to plead, to reason, to enlarge on the miseries and wrongs she had endured.
Page 25 - No, it was not a spirit of wilfulness that led little Julia to interfere with the proceedings of her young companion ; but it is easier to say what it was not, than to explain precisely what it was.