Roy's Repentance A Novel Author:Adeline Sergeant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: H. Holt and Co. Subjects: English fiction Fiction, English Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the orig... more »inal. 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 IF. ROSAMOND CAREW. There is no need to trace the course of Roy Jos- celyn's insane passion. Henceforth his work was neglected : his poem forgotten. He lived only to catch glimpses of Rosamond Carew, to exchange a word or two with her, to sit for hours at the sick man's bedside. Mr. Carew was really ill: the shock to his system had been even more serious than the injury itself -- so said the doctor -- and it would take weeks of careful nursing to restore him to his wonted health. Indeed, there was a fear that he would never be restored to it at all. With his infatuation in full play, Roy became vaguely conscious of two or three points in Rosamond's character which later events made very clear. To begin with, she did not love Mr. Carew. She was afraid of him, perhaps, for he had a sarcastic -. tongue, with all his blandness ; but she was never anxious to serve him, to be useful to him in any way. She seemed to shrink from the sight of pain ; and when once away from it she put it out of her mind at once. Roy saw her retreat in silence and disgust from her father's room if some exceptionally severe attack of pain or faintness came upon him ; but he would meet her, ten minutes afterwards, smiling, gay, rosy, a song and a laugh upon her lips, as unconcerned about Mr. Carew's suffering as a canary-bird. The canary-bird was not an unapt simile, thought Roy to himself one day, as he sat with th...« less