Antonina, Or, the Fall of Rome. : a Romance of the Fifth Century. V. 1
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Let me then pass from my introductory interviews with Antonina, to the consequences that had resulted from them when I set forth on my journey to Ravenna. " You will easily imagine, Julia, that the strangeness of this girFs situation, and the origi- nality of her ideas, invested her with an attraction for me, which the charms of her person and age contributed immensely to heighten. She delighted my faculties as a poet, as much as she fired my feelings as a man ; and I determined to lure her fro...m the tyrannical protection of her father, by the employment of every artifice that my ingenuity could suggest. I began by teaching her to exer- cise for herself the talent which had so attracted her in another. By the familiarity engendered on both sides by such an occupation, I hoped to gain as much in affection from her as she acquired in skill from me, but, to my astonishment, I still found her as indifferent towards the master and as tender towards the music, as she had appeared at our first interview.
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