East and West

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. With no enviable feelings Henry Beckford glanced after the carriage as it drove off. By heaven, he muttered to himself, through his teeth, pulling at the same moment his hat over his brows, she has brought me to this pass to laugh at and scorn me. Now, when the whole town knows how long I have...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. With no enviable feelings Henry Beckford glanced after the carriage as it drove off. By heaven, he muttered to himself, through his teeth, pulling at the same moment his hat over his brows, she has brought me to this pass to laugh at and scorn me. Now, when the whole town knows how long I have been her servant, almost her slave?they will say her very slave?she treats me in this manner. I boasted to our set at our last supper of my success with her, and now, damnation I shall have their taunts?I must bear all this?her scorn and their laughter, as well as?as?yes, yes, I love her as well as hate her. And, if my love brings nothing but this wormwood, I'll make that wormwood a bitter drug for her. I will, 1 must be revenged. Her conduct is insufferable?' Master Henry, '?I'll master her yet. She has, with the most cold-blooded malice, coquetted me, and now this dashing southerner has come, she spurns me as though I were a dog, whose fawning molested her. Her devilish spirit and her unbridled, unlicensed tongue unman me. The miser's son, my virtuous cousin she ' would rather have his friendship, than the love of any man in Christendom, ' and therefore I could see she ' had noidea of love or matrimony'?a most gentle hint that I am flung. And that puritanical little Ruth, she received my attentions all the while so demurely, and was engaged to Mr. Ralph?how she deceived her mother ?this pink of all the virtues ?I am fooled, bamboozled, deceived at every point?and nothing accursed ever happens to me, but the name of this cousin of mine comes in like the evil word? damn him. I'll see Helen Murray again, alone, ?I'll see her and know what she means. It may be that she is provoked at my letter?' Master Henry '?oh, that 1 were her master With these reflections pres...