... pangs, assails her young breast. She knows how ardently, how madly, he can adore, compares his present undisguised coldness with the fervour of the happy past, and concludes (not in general without cause,) that another object has usurped her place... The Victims of Society - Strona 35autor: Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1837Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
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...this humiliating, this torturing change. If she loves her husband, jealousy, with all its envenomed pangs, assails her young breast. She knows how ardently,...generally is, that his wife either breaks her heart or her marriage vows, or sinks into that humiliating and humiliated being, an unloved and unpitied hypochondriac;... | |
| Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1837 - Liczba stron: 890
...cause), that another object has usurped her place in his heart. Love, pride, and jealous rage, are now iu arms ; and how strong must be the virtue, and how...selfishness makes him loathe both, and he seeks abroad a dedommayement for the ennui they produce. The result generally is, that his wife either breaks her... | |
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