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Marmaduke Herbert (2); Or, the Fatal Error. a Novel Founded on Fact
Marmaduke Herbert Or the Fatal Error a Novel Founded on Fact - 2 Author:Marguerite Blessington Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Original Publisher: B. Tauchnitz Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Women Authors Notes: This is a black and white OCR repri... more »nt of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books 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: CHAPTER XLI. I Awoke the imt morning in a very different frame of mind. The folly, the madness of having yielded to the threats of the villain Figgins now struck me so forcibly, that I could hardly comprehend how I could have perpetrated it. A night's calm and refreshing slumber, the first enjoyed for a long time, had produced such a salutary effect on my nerves, that the menaces which had the previous night almost irritated me to insanity, by filling me with terror, were now looked on in quite another point of view. -- Such is the weakness of man, and so do his actions depend on the state of his nervous system! Now, when it was too late, I could see, and intensely feel, the terrible false step I had taken, and writhe in agony when reflecting on the consequences it would inevitably entail. I loathed my own moral pusillanimity, which, instead of leading me to resist the demand made on me by a scoundrel, whose menaces I should have, in common policy, defied, induced me to comply with it, and by so doing, placed me for ever in his power. -- Yes, now, indeed, had I signed my own condemnation -- henceforth must I feel myself the slave of a villain. Why had it not occurred to me when I got the demand, to send off at once for the doctor, and tell him of it? He was a sensible, as well as a kind man, much esteemed by the civil authorities at Nice; and had I appealed to him, there was littl...« less