Pauline's Passion and Punishment
Louisa May Alcott
Subjects: Revenge -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, PS, I
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Subjects: Revenge -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, PS, I
Downloads: 569
To and fro, like a wild creature in its cage, paced that handsome woman, with bent head, locked hands, and restless steps. Some mental storm, swift and sudden as a tempest of the tropics, had swept over her and left its marks behind. As if in anger at the beauty now proved powerless, all ornaments had been flung away, yet still it shone undimmed, and filled her with a passionate regret. A jewel glittered at her feet, leaving the lace rent to shreds on the indignant bosom that had worn it; the wreaths of hair that had crowned her with a woman's most womanly adornment fell diso.
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