Norman Leslie a Tale of the Present Times volume 1
Norman Leslie a Tale of the Present Times volume 1
Theodore S Theodore Sedgwick Fay
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No I will not deceive my- self. What will pass for courage in me is only 82 NORMAN LESLIE. hypocrisy. My heart sickens my soul recoils I shudder. It is fear which whips me on, and which startles me back. Not the fear of death. Were that death to be encountered for Flora- were I to meet a lion on the arena for her were I to brave pestilence chains torture how calm how high how brave I should be ! But here I tremble at the sin the ignominy the deep wound I must inflict upon the heart of a father ...and a sister. I tremble to have all my glittering dreams and broad proud plans crushed by a cool, vile, heartless villain. But" and he stepped with a higher and more solemn emotion " my strug- gles are over. This ' terrible feat' must be done. My agonies and my doubts are alike useless and idle. " And with the power of mind which perhaps more accomplished duellists could not have com- manded, he dismissed, at least for a period, the re- flections which unnerved him. Indeed, after the first recoil, his strong nerves and manly heart grew stronger and manlier.
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