The Poles in the Seventeenth Century : An Historical Novel, With a Sketch of the Polish Cossacks 3
The book The Poles in the Seventeenth Century : An Historical Novel, With a Sketch of the Polish Cossacks 3 was written by author Krasinski, Henry, D. 1876 Here you can read free online of The Poles in the Seventeenth Century : An Historical Novel, With a Sketch of the Polish Cossacks 3 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Poles in the Seventeenth Century : An Historical Novel, With a Sketch of the Polish Cossacks 3 a good or bad book?
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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 193 Close to the body was the carcase of a wolf, and its throat appeared to have been torn by the fangs of the dog, — that faithful dog now reduced to the last degree of extenuation by want of food. As Mary stood over the corpse of her well- beloved, reeking with putrefaction and in the most heart-sickening stage of its progress from dissolution to dust, her anguish vented itself neither in words nor in gestures, nor in tears. Her eyes were fixed, glazed, passionless, —... and that still, speechless, marble torpor bespoke a deeper agony than the wildest paroxysms could have betrayed, — but for a momentary tremor and convulsion of the muscles, it might have seemed that the chilling ice-wind of despair had swept over that fair form and frozen it into the semblance of a statue. In the mean time the Starost, Jenny, and Mucha, who were closely following her, arrested their footsteps on beholding her in this attitude, VOL. Ill K 194 THE POLES IN and fearful that they might startle the spirit from its earthly tenement, they dared not move from the place whence they had first seen her.
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