Whitehall Or The Days Of Charles I An Historical Romance By The Author Of Whitefriars Emma Robinson

Author : Emma Robinson
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9780217147798
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Whitehall written by Emma Robinson and published by General Books. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853. Excerpt: ... perturbing influence occurred, the result might have answered his expectation. CHAPTER XXV. It would, perhaps, have been better if Ingulph had discontinued his visits more gradually; Stonehenge frequently expressed surprise and dissatisfaction at the neglect, and listened with a species of incredulity to his apologies, and in a manner in which Ingulph felt there was an increasing fusion of suspicion. To obviate this inconvenience, he went into the contrary extreme, and returned to his habit of visiting at the old palace almost every evening. But a change had now come over Ramona. She was as reserved and uncommunicative as ever she had been the contrary; and he observed with pain, that a deep shadow of melancholy had fallen on her sunny nature, like the gloom of a storm over an Italian vintage. But there was another change which puzzled the young observer much more; Ramona seemed suddenly to have awakened to the power which her beauty and youth gave her over her husband, and displayed it in a thousand caprices. She began to complain of the seclusion in which she lived, as if she had but just discovered it; and Stonehenge, whose heart was naturally tender and confiding, suffered her to assume a liberty which, considering her foreign education and ignorance of the world, was not very advisable. Time passed in these fluctuations, and meanwhile Ingulph's attention, after the experience he had acquired of the party volant, was frequently directed to the singular proceedings of De la Pole. "Whether sincerely, or to serve his political purposes, the cavalier had assumed a great strictness of life, frequented the conventicles, and spent many hours daily in conversation with the chief religious leaders. Blinded by the hope of so great a convert, fanatic and presbyt...