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... Ricardo when he heard that his be- loved Louisa had been carried off . For some moments in speechless agony he gazed on the equally distressed Signora Bononi , then having informed VOL . II . B himself himself of the time she was taken ...
... Ricardo when he heard that his be- loved Louisa had been carried off . For some moments in speechless agony he gazed on the equally distressed Signora Bononi , then having informed VOL . II . B himself himself of the time she was taken ...
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... Ricardo pursued his course along the road they inform- ed him she had gone ; and , animat- ed with the hope of soon reaching her , and revenging himself on the ruf- fians who had bore her away , he soon crossed the hills that closed in ...
... Ricardo pursued his course along the road they inform- ed him she had gone ; and , animat- ed with the hope of soon reaching her , and revenging himself on the ruf- fians who had bore her away , he soon crossed the hills that closed in ...
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... Ricardo reached the summit of the last of the chain of hills just as the clouds , tinged with the radiant beams of the setting sun , were losing their borrowed lustre . Before him lay for many leagues a flat country , and as swiftly ...
... Ricardo reached the summit of the last of the chain of hills just as the clouds , tinged with the radiant beams of the setting sun , were losing their borrowed lustre . Before him lay for many leagues a flat country , and as swiftly ...
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... Ricardo cheered him- self with the hopes of soon overtaking Louisa . His horses , however , being jaded with the fatigues of the day , pro- ceeded but slowly , and the night clos- ed on them soon after they had left the lofty hills ...
... Ricardo cheered him- self with the hopes of soon overtaking Louisa . His horses , however , being jaded with the fatigues of the day , pro- ceeded but slowly , and the night clos- ed on them soon after they had left the lofty hills ...
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... , the party wan- dered far out of its beaten tract ere they had had observed their error , to rectify which became impossible , and every moment increased their dif- ficulties ficulties and the agitation of Ricardo . All hope of 6.
... , the party wan- dered far out of its beaten tract ere they had had observed their error , to rectify which became impossible , and every moment increased their dif- ficulties ficulties and the agitation of Ricardo . All hope of 6.
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Page 141 - I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina; silence is in the house of her fathers.