Identifier: internationallib02lang (find matches)
Title: The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York Merrill and Baker
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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whichhe wrote of these events. But Caesar, suspecting her purpose,took to menacing language about her children, and excited herfears for them, before which engines her purpose shook andgave way, so that she suffered those about her to give her whatmeat or medicine they pleased. Some few days after, Caesar himself came to make her avisit and comfort her. She lay then upon her pallet bed inundress, and, on his entering in, sprang up from off her bed,having nothing on but the one garment next her body, andflung herself at his feet, her hair and face looking wild and dis-figured, her voice quivering, and her eyes sunk in her head.The marks of the blows she had given herself were visibleabout her bosom, and altogether her whole person seemed noless afflicted than her soul. But, for all this, her old charm,and the boldness of her youthful beauty, had not wholly lefther, and, in spite of her present condition, still sparkled fromwithin, and let itself appear in all the movements of her coun-
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