. Old love stories retold. Old Love Stories Retoldattempt to call on her husband, the ser-vants would throw him out of the house,and that, should he write, his letters wouldbe returned unopened, he still maintaineda pacificatory attitude of punctiliouscourtesy, and still insisted on surrender-ing Helene to the care of such a mother,with a fanatical gallantry which was nodoubt very satisfying to his pride, butwhich was certainly most disastrouslyill-timed. Helenes eagle among menhad indeed made a very unaquiline mis-take. Here, if ever, was his moment toswoop and carry the white lamb of thehous
. Old love stories retold. Old Love Stories Retoldattempt to call on her husband, the ser-vants would throw him out of the house,and that, should he write, his letters wouldbe returned unopened, he still maintaineda pacificatory attitude of punctiliouscourtesy, and still insisted on surrender-ing Helene to the care of such a mother,with a fanatical gallantry which was nodoubt very satisfying to his pride, butwhich was certainly most disastrouslyill-timed. Helenes eagle among menhad indeed made a very unaquiline mis-take. Here, if ever, was his moment toswoop and carry the white lamb of thehouse of von Donniges safe to his un-scalable eyrie. But no! he chose insteadto pose picturesquely in an attitude ofnobly surrendering a prey which it wasobviously in his power any moment torecapture. Nothing, indeed, would sat-isfy his aquiline pride but that the familywhich had dared thus to scorn him shouldbeg him upon its knees to do it the honourof flying away with one of its daughters! if
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