The Woman in White: A Novel, Volume 17Harper & Brothers, 1893 - 548 pages |
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Page 23 - of my stick. There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road — there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven — stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments; her face bent in grave inquiry on mine, her hand
Page 32 - said to myself, The lady is dark. She moved forward a few steps—and I said to myself, The lady is young. She approached nearer—and I said to myself (with a sense of surprise which words fail me to express), The lady is ugly ! Never was the old conventional maxim, that Nature
Page 11 - against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness—with the same object, in both cases, to present the truth always in its most direct and most intelligible aspect ; and to trace the course of one complete series of events, by making the persons who have been most closely connected
Page 11 - of the public attention in a Court of Justice. But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse ; and the story is left to be told, for the first time, in this place. As the Judge might once have heard it, so the Reader shall hear it now.
Page 32 - err, more flatly contradicted—never was the fair promise of a lovely figure more strangely and startlingly belied by the face and head that crowned it. The lady's complexion was almost swarthy, and the dark down on her upper lip was almost
Page 382 - Walter ; but I remember Marian, and I remember you—" in that moment, I, who had long since given her my love, gave her my life, and thanked God that it was mine to bestow on her. Yes ! the time had come. From thousands on thousands of miles away ; through forest and wilderness, where companions stronger than
Page 320 - see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view. Perhaps my own secretions being all wrong together, I am a little prejudiced on the subject. No matter. I behaved, on this occasion, with all possible propriety and feeling. I closed my eyes, and said to Louis, " Endeavor to ascertain what she means.
Page 38 - look—something singularly and unpleasantly delicate in its association with a man, and, at the same time, something which could by no possibility have looked natural and appropriate if it had been transferred to the personal appearance of a woman. My morning's experience of Miss Halcombe had predisposed me to be pleased with
Page 443 - the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity ? I asked myself that question as I passed through the clean desolation, the neat ugliness, the prim torpor of the streets of Welmingham. And the tradesmen who stared