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Excerpt: ...the despised 182 suitor, after having pleased him by my book, and astounded him with my poem, and mesmerized him with the exposure of Claire, standing before him with silent lips but eyes speaking: I want your daughter. Can even this perverse man deny me? Don't you think I have a chance?" "Not with Everard," said the Senator solemnly. "He's simply coke." "You should write a book, Doyle, on the art of wooing a father-in-law, and explain what you have left out here: how to get away with the dog." "Before marriage," said the ready wit, "the girl looks after the dog; after marriage the dog can be trained to bite the father-in-law." Arthur found the Confessions of an Escaped Nun interesting reading from many points of view, and spent the next three days analyzing the book of the hour. His sympathy for convent life equaled his understanding of it. He had come to understand and like Sister Mary Magdalene, in spite of a prejudice against her costume; but the motive and spirit of the life she led were as yet beyond him. Nevertheless, he could see how earnestly the Confessions lied about what it pretended to expose. The smell of the indecent and venal informer exhaled from the pages. The vital feature, however, lay in the revelation of Sister Claire's character, between the lines. Beneath the vulgarity and obscenity, poorly veiled in a mock-modest verbiage, pulsated a burning sensuality reaching the horror of mania. A well-set trap would have easy work in catching the feet of a woman related to the nymphs. Small wonder that the Livingstone party kept her afar off from their perfumed and reputable society while she did her nasty work. The book must have been oil to that conflagration raging among the Irish. The abuse of the press, the criticism of their friends, the reproaches of their own, the hostility of the government, the rage and grief at the failure of their hopes, the plans to annoy and cripple them, scorched indeed their sensitive natures; but the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781153808484
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115380848X
  • Publisher Date: 23 Aug 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 295 gr


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