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共 187 题- THE HISTORY OF SIR CHARLES GRANDISON, VOLUME IV
- SAMUEL RICHARDSON
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV
- LETTER I
- MISS BYRON, TO MISS SELBY
- DR. BARTLETT'S TENTH LETTER
- I am, my Jeronymo, and embraced him. Love me in absence, as I shall you.
- Yet, said Jeronymo, you have some reason--To be sent for as you were--
- LETTER II
- MISS BYRON, TO MISS SELBY
- DR. BARTLETT'S ELEVENTH LETTER
- You may depend upon it, he will, answered I----
- I will be there to receive him, replied he.
- I don't know--Still looking round her, as wanting somebody.
- I am sorry for it. I love you, Clementina, as I love my own soul!
- I guessed you did, whispered I.
- I hope you will, replied the bishop.
- I never loved you better than now, my dear.
- I did.
- LETTER III
- MISS BYRON, TO MISS SELBY
- DR. BARTLETT'S TWELFTH LETTER
- God be your director and comforter, as well as ours! prays
- I hear that my dear friend, Signor Jeronymo, has undergone--
- I am surprised, chevalier. You take something amiss in my behaviour.
- Not ask a question, my lord?--
- LETTER IV
- MISS BYRON, TO MISS SELBY
- DR. BARTLETT'S THIRTEENTH LETTER
- SIR,
- HORTENSIA BEAUMONT
- I will briefly inform you of it.
- HARRIET BYRON.
- LETTER V
- FRIDAY NIGHT.
- LETTER VI
- I will leave all those matters to you, kinsman--
- CHARLES GRANDISON.
- HARRIET BYRON.
- LETTER VII
- LETTER VIII
- I see, sir, you have your arts.
- You treat me as a child, sir--
- Torment you, sir!--Pray, has Sir Harry--
- Is he not offended with me, madam, for the contents of the letter--
- No, sir, and I suppose you hardly think he is--But I am--
- She took fire--rose up--
- What, sir--Pray, sir--With an angry brow---
- I wonder, sir--
- I can't consent--
- Strange man!--Unhand me--He has used me unkindly--
- Pray, Sir Charles, interrupted the lady--
- To give me hopes that she--
- Pray, Sir Charles--
- Will use her interest to confirm you in your favourable sentiments--
- I did not think, sir, when I laid my fortune at your feet--
- Not, madam, till you, as peremptorily--
- Now, Sir Charles Grandison, said my lady, with an air of threatening--
- Sir Charles, I have no patience with you--
- Recede! I have not yet complied--
- Bold man--Have I consented--
- I have agreed to nothing, Sir Harry--
- I have not.
- Let me, my dearest Lady Beauchamp, said Sir Harry--Let me request--
- SATURDAY, APRIL 1.
- CHARLES GRANDISON.
- LETTER IX
- I was silent: yet the word Yes was on my lips.
- LETTER X
- LETTER XI
- MISS BYRON.--IN CONTINUATION
- I took it. These, Lucy, are the contents.
- Ah, Lucy! more twitches just then!--
- HARRIET BYRON.
- LETTER XII
- She then put on one of her arch looks--
- Pray, Charlotte--
- LETTER XIII
- I understand you, sir, said I.
- LETTER XIV
- And so this is the last time of asking, sir? A little archly--
- I wish he was in half the hurry to be married himself.
- I hate his peremptoriness.
- I don't love this Clementina, Harriet: all this is owing to her.
- LETTER XV
- I do not like the man.
- I am sure you may, if it be not your own fault.
- You don't hate him?--
- But Charlotte Grandison will not, cannot--
- I hope it will hold me till fifty.
- LETTER XVI
- Must this (I hope not!) be the last time that I write myself to you
- CHARLOTTE GRANDISON?
- LETTER XVII
- LETTER XVIII
- What, sir, am I to be buffetted, sir?--
- I beg pardon for intruding, madam--But I thought--
- Charlotte, whispered I, don't be silly--
- LETTER XIX
- MONDAY, APRIL 10.
- LETTER XX
- What will my brother say? What will--
- I do pity him sometimes.
- I shall look like a fool either way.
- I am sure she looked sillier than Lord G---- at that instant.
- LETTER XXI
- I thought so! She laughed--And Lord L---- took it! Did he?
- LETTER XXII
- But how, said Lady G----, shall a young creature be able to judge--
- LETTER XXIII
- I won't forgive you, if you refuse to come.
- CHARLOTTE GRANDISON.
- LETTER XXIV
- Well, sir, not a word more, since you are--
- Pray, madam--
- I see, madam, said he, she has let you into--
- LETTER XXV
- MISS BYRON.--IN CONTINUATION
- I answered her as politely as I could in the same language.
- I am not.
- LETTER XXVI
- I greatly love the dear Emily, sir. She and I shall be always sisters.
- I bowed: I dared not to trust my voice.
- I bowed again.
- I wiped my eyes.
- LETTER XXVII
- LETTER XXVIII
- SUNDAY EVENING.
- I was surprised.
- I was astonished, Lucy.
- LETTER XXIX
- I could not speak for very impatience--
- I must have an answer, my dear: I will not take up with a compliment.
- LETTER XXX
- LETTER XXXI
- I am all obedience, my lord.
- I can't spare it.
- Then I give you joy--
- What do you mean, sister?--
- I give your lordship joy, too.
- When I behave as you do, Charlotte--
- You would not behave thus, were my brother--
- Why then do you not--
- And did I not beseech you, madam--
- TUESDAY MORNING.
- CHARLOTTE GRANDISON.
- I instantly dispatched the following:
- HARRIET BYRON.
- I come, my dearest life! to make a request to you.
- No where, Sir--
- LETTER XXXII
- I am just returned from St. James's-square.
- ENTER LORD G.
- LORD G. And could you, madam, have the heart to write--
- LORD G. If, Miss Byron, you know the truth, and can blame me--
- LORD G. Every tittle of what you promised there, madam--
- LORD G. Miss Byron, give me leave--
- LORD G. Too easily, madam--
- LORD G. Never man more loved a woman. I am not an ill-natured man--
- She stopt, and pretended to be going--
- LETTER XXXIII
- CAERMARTHEN, APRIL 11.
- LETTER XXXIV
- LETTER XXXV
- THURSDAY MORNING.
- LETTER XXXVI
- Once more, adieu, my dear Lady G----, and continue to love your
- HARRIET BYRON.
- LETTER XXXVII
- CHARLOTTE G----.
- LETTER XXXVIII
- LETTER XXXIX
- I courtesied to him, and withdrew.
- I made her heart easy, on that score.
- LETTER XL
- CHARLOTTE G----.
- LETTER XLI
- I took my place again.
- Not for one moment forbear, madam!--
- But, madam, I cannot, I will not--
- CHARLOTTE G----.
- LETTER XLII
- CHARLOTTE G----
- LETTER XLIII
- LETTER XLIV
- I will give you, my dear friend, the particulars of this conversation.
- END OF VOLUME 4