The Poles in the Seventeenth Century : An Historical Novel, With a Sketch of the Polish Cossacks 1
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This is most strange, your father's in some passion That works him strongly. Shakespeare. — Tempest. On arriving at the inn, Vasovicz immediately proceeded to the stable, and ordered his carriage. Gloom was seated upon his brow, when he entered the room, where Casimir and Mary were waiting for him. When the latter perceived him, she ran, ac- cording to her habitual practice, to kiss his hand. She was smiling with happiness — that amiable artless girl ! for the hours that she passed away from he...r loved uncle appeared to her 196 THE POLES IN sad and tedious. Her affectionate greeting met with no return ; a marked coldness characterised her uncle's look and manner: the unmeaning salutation of the day pronounced drily and abruptly, was the only answer she received. This icy reception conveyed a chilling sensa- tion to Mary's heart. Nothing so much discon- certs and afflicts a warm expansive soul, as an unexpected change in the manners of those, who, with unvarying kindness, have been at all times accustomed to welcome us with joy when \vc meet them.
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