Chrysal: Or, The Adventures of a Guinea. Wherein are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes with Curious and Interesting Anecdotes, of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands it Passed Through, in America, England, Holland, Germany, and Portugal, Tập 3-4J. Hill, 1767 |
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Trang 64 - Take care ! (answered a voice, the hollow trembling of which was sharpened by indignation) " take care it is not from a fiend of hell, who has taken advantage of your distress to tempt you to ruin ! for with whom else could you be till this time of night ? But know, wretched girl, that I will never eat the earnings of vice and infamy. A few hours will put an end to my miseries, which have received the only possible addition by this your folly.
Trang 65 - , said he, ' can a sense of humanity be such an uncommon thing among creatures who call themselves human, that so poor an exertion of it should be thought deserving of a return proper to be made only to Heaven. Oppress me not, sir, I conjure you, with the mention of what it would have been a crime I could never have forgiven myself to have known I had not done.
Trang 63 - The sigh of distress, which never struck his ear without affecting his heart, came with double force from such an object. He viewed her with silent compassion for some moments ; and, reaching her a piece of gold, bade her go home and shelter herself from the inclemencies of the night at so late an hour.
Trang 61 - You are very peremptory, sir, but you know your own value, and therefore in hopes you will let me have more for my money next time, I will venture to give you your price now, though really if it was not for your name I could not possibly do it, but to be sure that is worth a shilling extraordinary, I own." "Which is twelve pence more than yours ever will be, unless to the ordinary of Newgate. — But come ! give me the money, I want to go to my company.
Trang 65 - By the time he thought they might have learned from their daughter the circumstances of her meeting with him, and taken some nourishment, he returned to them ; when, the moment he entered the room, the whole family fell upon their knees to thank him. Such humiliation was more than he could bear. He raised them, one by one, as fast as he could, and taking the father's hand...
Trang 66 - ... most likely to divert their attention from their present misery, and inspire their minds with better hopes, while the children, all but the daughter who hung upon his words, comforted at heart with a better meal than they had long tasted, fell fast asleep, as they leaned their heads upon their mother's lap. As soon as it was day,
Trang 64 - With these words, he went directly to a tavern, and enquiring what victuals were dressed in the house, loaded her with as much as she could carry of the best, and putting a couple of bottles of wine in his own pocket, walked with her to her habitation, which was in a blind alley, happily for her not very far distant, as weakness together with the conflict of passions struggling in her heart, made her scarce able to go.
Trang 9 - ... as fast as we can, for the place can never hold out against us. The purser will give every brave fellow a can of punch, to drink prosperity to Old England, and then we will go about our business with spirit.
Trang 60 - And so, sir, I desire to know without more words (for I told you before that your eloquence would be thrown away upon me), whether you will give that, as I am in haste to go to company, much more agreeable to me than yours '. ' What, sir ! fifty guineas for scarce five hundred lines ! Such a thing was never heard of in the trade...
Trang 65 - ! exclaimed the daughter, who was afraid that if he should go away, he might not return.