Plato - "Laws"

Meriwether Lewis et al - "The Journals of Lewis and Clark"

Rudyard Kipling - "Kim"

Arthur M. Winfield - "The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes"

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Books: Lothair

B >> Benjamin Disraeli >> Lothair




"You shall choose a rose," said Lady Corisande.

"Nay; the charm is, that it should be your choice."

But choosing the rose lost more times and, when Corisande and Lothair
reached the arches of golden yew, there were no friends in sight.

"I think I hear sounds this way," said Lothair, and he led his companion
farther from home.

"I see no one," said Lady Corisande, distressed, and when they had
advanced a little way.

"We are sure to find them in good time," said Lothair. "Besides, I
wanted to speak to you about the garden at Muriel. I wanted to induce
you to go there and help me to make it. Yes," he added, after some
hesitation, "on this spot -- I believe on this very spot -- I asked the
permission of your mother two years ago to express to you my love. She
thought me a boy, and she treated me as a boy. She said I knew nothing
of the world, and both our characters were unformed. I know the world
now. I have committed many mistakes, doubtless many follies -- have
formed many opinions, and have changed many opinions; but to one I have
been constant, in one I am unchanged -- and that is my adoring love to
you."

She turned pale, she stopped, then, gently taking his arm, she hid her
face in his breast.

He soothed and sustained her agitated frame, and sealed with an embrace
her speechless form. Then, with soft thoughts and softer words,
clinging to him, he induced her to resume their stroll, which both of
them now wished might assuredly be undisturbed. They had arrived at the
limit of the pleasure-grounds, and they wandered into the park and its
most sequestered parts. All this time Lothair spoke much, and gave her
the history of his life since he first visited her home. Lady Corisande
said little, but, when she was more composed, she told him that from the
first her heart had been his, but every thing seemed to go against her
hopes. Perhaps at last, to please her parents, she would have married
the Duke of Brecon, had not Lothair returned; and what he had said to
her that morning at Crecy House had decided her resolution, whatever
might be her lot; to unite it to no one else but him. But then came the
adventure of the crucifix, and she thought all was over for her, and she
quitted town in despair.

"Let us rest here for a while;" said Lothair, "under the shade of this
oak;" and Lady Corisande reclined against its mighty trunk, and Lothair
threw himself at her feet. He had a great deal still to tell her, and,
among other things, the story of the pearls, which he had wished to give
to Theodora.

"She was, after all, your good genius," said Lady Corisande. "I always
liked her."

"Well, now," said Lothair, "that case has never been opened. The year
has elapsed, but I would not open it, for I had always a wild wish that
the person who opened it should be yourself. See, here it is." And
he gave her the case.

"We will not break the seal," said Corisande. "Let us respect it for
her sake -- ROMA!" she said, examining it; and then they opened the
case. There was the slip of paper which Theodora, at the time, had
placed upon the pearls, and on which she had written some unseen words.
They were read now, and ran thus:

"THE OFFERING OF THEODORA TO LOTHAIR'S BRIDE."

"Let me place them on you now," said Lothair.

"I will wear them as your chains," said Corisande.

The sun began to tell them that some hours had elapsed since they
quitted Brentham House. At last a soft hand, which Lothair retained,
gave him a slight pressure, and a sweet voice whispered: "Dearest, I
think we ought to return."

And they returned almost in silence. They rather calculated that,
taking advantage of the luncheon-hour, Corisande might escape to her
room, but they were a little too late. Luncheon was over, and they met
the duchess and a large party on the terrace.

"What has become of you, my good people?" said her grace; "bells have
been ringing for you in every direction. Where can you have been?"

"I have been in Corisande's garden," said Lothair, "and she has given me
a rose."