 | 1861 - 520 pages
...must have made his mother, who literally idolised him as the sole thing left to her on earth, bitterly sad, to see the impassioned eagerness, the joyous...from the bell-tower of Vigne, the belfry of the old village-church, and the countless clocks throughout the house. A little gold Bayadère on the mantelpiece... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...Trefusis, haughty, overbearing, cold as marble, of neither finished education, cultured mind, nor refilled taste, would be the woman of all others from whom,...from the bell-tower of Vigne, the belfry of the old village-church, and the countless clocks throughout the house. A little gold Bayadere on the mantelpiece... | |
 | Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1863 - 350 pages
...years, De Vigne would be most certain to revolt. A man's later loves, are sure to be widely distinct in style from his earlier. In his youth, he only asks...eyes and senses ; in manhood — if he be a man of intellect at all — he will go VOL. i. p further, and require interest for his mind, and response... | |
 | James Grant - 1881 - 458 pages
...love, as she was that of the ill-fated Charlie. 'A man's later loves are sure to be widely distinct in style from his earlier. In his youth he only asks for what charms his eyes and senses ; in manhood—if he be a man of intellect at all—he will go further, and require intellect for his mind... | |
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... trust with which he looked forward to his future, and know — as she and we who were not dazzled by the radiance of that exterior beauty of form and feature, knew by instinct — that Constance Trefusis, haughty, overbearing, cold as marble, of neither... 