The new monthly Author:Samuel Carter Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EAST LYNNE. BY THE AUTHOR OF " ASHLEY." PAST THE SEVENTEENTH. A TBIAT IN A GREEK POND. Standing blowing in the wind at the turning of the road were Mis... more »s Carlyle and Lady Isabel Vane. The latter, confused and perplexed, was picking up the remnant of her damaged spectacles : the former, little less perplexed, gazed at the face which struck upon her memory as being so familiar. Her attention, however, was called off the face to the apparition of Sir Francis Levison. He was close upon them, Mr. Drake and the other comrade being with him, and some tag-rag in attendance, as usual. It was the first time he and Miss Carlyle had met, face to face. She bent her condemning brow, haughty in its bitter scorn, full upon him : for it was not in the nature of Miss Carlyle to conceal her sentiments, especially when they were rather of the strongest. Sir Francis, when he arrived opposite, raised his hat to her. Whether it was done in courtesy, in confused unconsciousness, or in mockery, cannot be told : Miss Carlyle assumed it to have been the latter; and her lips, in their anger, grew almost as pale as those of the unhappy woman who was cowering behind her. " Did you intend that insult for me, Francis Levison ?" " As you please to take it," returned he, calling up insolence to his aid. " You dare to lift off your hat to me ? Have you forgotten that I am Miss Carlyle ?" " It would be difficult for you to be forgotten, once seen." Now this answer was given in mockery; his tone and manner were redolent of it, insolently so. The two gentlemen looked on in discomfort, wondering what it meant; Lady Isabel hid her face as she best could, terrified to death lest his eyes should fall on it; while the spectators, several of whom had collected now, listened with interest, especial...« less