 | Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (grevinde) - 1872 - 358 pages
...cause for anger, for she would be true to me. I thought, ' You shall know no more than is necessary.' I let her go on talking and relating the whole history...lord was dead, and she comforted me, and that in a reasonable manner; but the remembrance of past times was only strengthened by her consolatory remarks,... | |
 | George Frederick L. Bampfield - 1878 - 540 pages
...childhood have lived and learned at Waltham and for fifty-six years have been an inmate of that shrine, that I should have lived to see the day when I should be torn from the bosom of my ' Alma Mater." A WREATH OF WILD FLOWERS FOR OUR LADY. WE continue our... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1880 - 1436 pages
...but lay silently, hoping that it might be so, and that my husband had escaped his enemies by death ; and I thought with the greatest astonishment that...lived to see the day when I should wish my lord dead. style is in which the prisoner describes the conduct of her attendants', their bickerings and gossipings,... | |
 | Literature - 1880 - 862 pages
...but lay silently, hoping that it might be so, and that my husband had escaped his enemies by death ; and I thought with the greatest astonishment that...lived to see the day when I should wish my lord dead. We have not space for many more extracts, graphic though the style is in which the prisoner describes... | |
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I lay there silently hoping that it might be so, that my husband had by death escaped his enemies ; and I thought with the greatest astonishment that I should have lived to see the day when I should wish my lord dead ; then sorrowful thoughts took possession... 