Dame Rebecca Berry; Or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles the Second 3
The book Dame Rebecca Berry; Or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles the Second 3 was written by author Spence, Elizabeth Isabella, 1768-1832 Here you can read free online of Dame Rebecca Berry; Or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles the Second 3 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Dame Rebecca Berry; Or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles the Second 3 a good or bad book?
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This was a day in which Master Upton was doomed to witness more wonders than one ; for, when Sedley's toilette was finished, he observed him to select from out the numerous and costly chains and trinkets that were profusely scattered on the table before him, the fragment of a chain, not peculiarly handsome in itself, (even had it been in a perfect state,) and affix it ostentatiously across his vest. It was, in fact, the relics of Lady Cordelia's, which he now wore from other motives than those ...dictated by love. " Give me some half-dozen rapiers, Master Upton, that I may choose which shall be my friend to-day." This faithful servitor instantly obeyed his command ; and Sedley, unsheathing them each in their turn, bent the foils severally against the floor, in order to 96 DAME REBECCA BERRY. determine which was the best-tempered steel. " Ah ! my trusty ruby-hilt," he ex- claimed, resuming the fourth he had tried, " thou hast never once played me false. A Turk would take thee for a Damascus blade 5 but I now take thee for mine own." Saying which he girded it on, and then concealed his very white hands within the snowy precincts of a pair of highly - perfumed, crimson-topped, white kid gloves ; after which Master Upton pre- sented him with a Restoration handker- chief, the vade mecum of a gallant of those times, which was composed of white fringed taffety, with a border of oak-leaves embroidered in green flox silk.
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