General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Original Publisher: H. Colburn Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III.
Thou for our sakes, though Nature’s child indeed, Fair in thyself, and beautiful alone, Hast taken gifts which thou dost little need. WoKDSWORTH. The carriage of Mr. Chandos rolled on noiselessly over the thickly-fallen snow; the four post- horses with difficulty made their way. The night fell; the windows were coated with the white flakes; the lamps outside and the one inside the carriage were lighted at a turnpike gate where they stopped; and the father and daughter, wrapped up in their warm pelisses and cloaks, and furred to the very tip of the nose, enjoyed the journey together. Time and tide, weather and wind, snow and sleet, sunshine and rain – it was all enjoyment tothem when they were together. He wished for no other happiness, and she had yet to learn that life had greater happiness in its stores. I need not detain you by relating how, why, or wherefore, Lucilla happened not to be with them. I believe she had gone to pay some visit or other alone, and was to rejoin them. It is not necessary to pause to account for everybody’s movements; enough they were together, and had the conversation to themselves, and could talk over every thing openly and unreservedly, which they never did, or could do, when Lucilla was there. For, of course, she was too dictating and overbearing to listen much to the reasons, or attend much to the feelings, of other people; and therefore other people generally contrived to say very little about th…
