The Library of fiction - or, Family story-teller, consisting of original tales, essays, and sketches of character (1836) (14579648708)

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Title: The Library of fiction : or, Family story-teller, consisting of original tales, essays, and sketches of character
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Tugg's at Ramsgate Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Little talk about spring and the sweeps
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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hithertoupheld her. She felt that the business must be concludedquickly, if she were to be the means of its accomplishment. Herreal emotion had evaporated, and it was a labour to hold to herresolve. In these circumstances, she thought that, could sheutter something terrible, it might frighten the player into obe-dience, and with this intention, she cried You had better write directly, or Ill use an oath / The latter part of the sentence sounded oddly, even to theactors confusion ; but he was prevented fully recognising it bythe new appearance that the girls countenance, immediatelyafterwards, assumed. To the feverish red, the sickly hue ofdeath had succeeded : the eyes strained wildly; the mouthwas tightly compressed ; the neck exhibited a painful sight,from the convulsed starting of the sinews. The actor, as he noticed, mistook the meaning of this change:he, used to stage delineations, thought it displayed nothing elsethan a fiendish rage ; and fearful of delays with one so wrought.
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Page 235, Vol 2 KILLED BY MISTAKE. 235 he hastily, by the firelight, scrawled the required promise. Hemiglit have taken the \veapon from out the girls hand. When hewas most alarmed, she was, in fact, most incapable of injuringhim. Her power of motion had deserted her. It was asthough her body were undergoing some terrible metamorphosis,and changing to a living statue. All her nerves were fixed ;even the faculty of speech was locked ; but notwithstandingthis, her mind retained its energies; that seemed to survivewhen her body was as if stiff in death. * There, alls done ! said Wuggins, having written, and look-ing up with a smiling face, doul3tless certain that the dangerwas past. Come, put thepistol down now ! Car saw him w-rite : a sense of happiness seemed to warm hermto life. All she had wished was accompHshed : she should berespected again, and her mother would once more be happy.Perhaps—ibr vanity will mingle with the most opposite feelings—perhaps she might be induced to mar