The Fatal Marriage Author:Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1863 Original Publisher: Modern Pub. Co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Book... more »s edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: "Come, Mr. Dcville," said he "of tie forest," rising ;'l leading his guest across the hall to the spacious kitchen immediately opposite. '/here, at the head of a great oak table, the beautiful Liocne presided over a substantial supper of coffee, homemade bread and butter, and veuison steaks. So4 after supper the guest retired to dream of Lionne. CHAPTER IV. PASSION Cyu so quickly may one catch fue plague. -- Shalitptars. " LiosiNE ! Lionne !" After a night of feverish dreams, half rapture, half torture, Orvillo Dcville awoke with this name upon his glowing lips. He awoke with pale cheeks and heavy eyes, smouldering beneath their languid lids with suppressed fire, like burning coals under their vail of white ashes; ha awoke with beating brain, and burning heart, and quivering pulses, in real fever, the combined effects of ill-healed wounds, exposure, fatigue, and passional excitement. He threw off the heated coverlets, arose, and koked out from the windows. No glimpse of the sky could be seen -- nothing but the yray rocks and dwarfed cedars of the perpendicul- mountain side, within three feet of the windows, . net his riew. It was the illustration of his thought. Even such a barrier -- so hard, so firm, so dark, so immc vable -- separated him from the heaven of his dreams. And that barrier -- what was it ? worldly considerations ? He was the descendant of one of the oldest families in old England, aud the heir of one of the richest river estates in the province of Maryland. An...« less