Strathmore, by 'Ouida'. |
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Seite 114 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
Seite 34 - ... the white stretch of beach, the gray rocks that glittered, steel-like, in its light, the vast Druidic forests of the abbey, stretching westward, and the boiling, seething, roaring abyss, where the sea devoured its dead in the horror of night, to smile calm and sunny in the morning dawn when its mad work would be done, and its prey rot below, with the sand in their eyes, and the salt weeds in their hair, and the nameless things of the deep creeping over their limbs — over the childish brow that...
Seite 206 - Your lips were mine !" she cried, laughing still in that mocking mirth; " their kisses must poison hers. Your hand slew him ! its touch must pollute hers. Oh, lover, who lived but in my smile ! did you not know the dead passion would rise up and curse the new?
Seite 40 - ... the wreck, through the seas, which were strewn with the flotsam and jetsam of the shattered ship, and mounted with steady grasp the shelving, slippery mass, which was all that was left of the stately vessel that when the sun had gone down had been steering calmly before the wind, with white sails set, through a fair and balmy evening, over a laughing azure sea.
Seite 60 - ... utterance ; but Strathmore's hand was not shaken from its hold, and his words were gentle — strangely gentle for him : " As you will. But, ere you go, remember, for your tenderness to her, you shall still ask of me what you choose, and there shall be nothing that I will refuse. Think of me as your friend ; your future shall be my care.
Seite 34 - The wind rose in sudden blasts swift and fierce as a simoon, sweeping down from the wooded heights of the ancient monastery over the darkness of the sea, and driving against each other the great masses of the clouds like armies hurled together. The deafening roar of waters met the thunder of the skies* as they rolled back peal on peal ; and in the lightning glare the solitary ship was seen, black and spectral, with sails rent away, and masts broken like willow boughs ; flung from side to side as...
Seite 33 - ... a curlew, and play with men's lives as with wisps of straw. A night with the black seas yawning in fathomless graves, and the hissing of the waters, filling every moment that the thunder lulled. No rain fell ; the air was hot and arid, the dense clouds looked to stoop and touch the waves where they rose, a mighty wall of water, mountain high ; a darkness impenetrable brooded over land and sea, when the lightning ceased for some brief...