I did what ought to be done to a traitor ! " he replied. " I did what your eyes bade me do, when I asked them with mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice ! " These last words struck Miriam like a bullet. Could it be so? Had her eyes provoked or... The Marble Faun: Or, the Romance of Monte Beni - Side 216af Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 288 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 308 sider
...mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice! " These last words struck Miriam like a bullet. Could it be so? Had her eyes provoked or assented to this...and turmoil of the scene just acted, she could not deny—she was not sure whether it might be so, or no—that a wild joy had flamed up in her heart,... | |
| Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 sider
...mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice ! " These last words struck Miriam like a bullet. Could it be so? Had her eyes provoked or assented to this...heart, when she beheld her persecutor in his mortal peri!. Was it horror? — or ecstasy? — or both in one? Be the emotion what it might, it had blazed... | |
| Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 sider
...mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice ! " These last words struck Miriam like a bullet. Could it be so ? Had her eyes provoked or assented to this deed ? She had not known it. Bt1', alas! looking back into the frenzy and turmoil of the scene just acted, she could not deny —... | |
| Austin Phelps - 1882 - 316 sider
...eyes assented to the deed ? She had not known it. But alas ! looking back into the turmoil and frenzy of the scene just acted, she could not deny — she...up in her heart when she beheld her persecutor in mortal peril. Was it horror, or ecstasy, or both in one? Be the emotion what it might, it had blazed... | |
| Anna Randall Diehl - 1883 - 422 sider
...mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice ! " These last words struck Miriam like a bullet. Could it be so! Had her eyes provoked or assented to this...deny — she was not sure whether it might be so or not — that a wild joy had flamed up in her heart when she beheld her persecutor in his mortal peril.... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 550 sider
...mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice ! " These last words struck Miriam like a bullet. Could it be so ? Had her eyes provoked or assented to this...acted, she could not deny — she was not sure whether both in one ? Be the emotion what it might, it had blazed up more madly, when Donatello flung his victim... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 sider
...mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice! " These last words struck Miriam like a bullet Could it be so ? Had her eyes provoked or assented to this...and turmoil of the scene just acted, she could not deny—she was not sure whether it might be so, or no—that a wild joy had flamed up in her heart,... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 sider
...mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice ! " These last words struck Miriam like a bullet Could it be so? Had her eyes provoked or assented to this...into the frenzy and turmoil of the scene just acted, sbe could not deny — she was not sure whether it might be so, or no — that a wild joy had flamed... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1899 - 320 sider
...mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice ! " These last words struck Miriam like a bullet. Could it be so ? Had her eyes provoked or assented to this deed P She had not known it. But, alas ! looking back into the frenzy and turmoil of the scene just acted,... | |
| William Dean Howells - 1901 - 344 sider
...mine, as I held the, wretch over the precipice!' These last words struck Miriam like a bullet. Could it be so? Had her eyes provoked or assented to this...when she beheld her persecutor in his mortal peril. ... It had blazed up more madly when Donatello flung his victim off the cliff, and more and more while... | |
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