 | sir John Bowring - 1878 - 642 pages
...man, in words which remind us of Sheridan's Governor of Tilbury Fort, " after a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." The struggle would seem not to have been too severe ; and we shall find him a warm and intimate friend... | |
 | 1879 - 336 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 pages
...alliance, and that, without his .consent, I was destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...herself, and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...'My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1881 - 402 pages
...alliance, and that, without his consent, I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I •obeyed...cheerfulness of the lady herself ; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassier soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him... | |
 | 1881 - 884 pages
...destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lever, I obeyed as.a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence,...cheerfulness of the lady herself ; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." The deliberate misrepresentation of the course of events is proved by the... | |
 | 1881 - 842 pages
...was but a sorry fellow after all, though he makes the best of it in the tale. " My wound," he adds, " was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." But when he goes on to say that her father died, and that Susan had to come... | |
 | Haussonville (comte d') - 1882 - 344 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the l ady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. If we are to believe Gibbon's story all... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 414 pages
...That strange irony, sometimes unintentional with him, had grown into a habit ; and so he goes on : " My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...and my love subsided into friendship and esteem." Mr. Gibbon's tranquil version of the incident might have proved the authorised or accepted one, only... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pages
...then follows the sentence which has lost him in the eyes of some persons. " After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." What else he was to do under the circumstances does not appear. He was wholly dependent on his father,... | |
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After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. 
