Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1791 edition. Excerpt: ...this is the sirst, as also of every 'virtue, said Nemorin, in broken ac 'cents. Unfortunate must be the love, 'which makes the heart less virtuous! 'Meril is much esteemed, and much he 'does deserve it; the love he has for 'you will furnish him with new accomplishments; in living with Stella, he cannot fail becoming amiable. You 1 will love him---Yes--love him--be 'happy, and if to make you happy, 'Nemorin must be forgot O Stella, 'Stella, judge if I adore you--well; I 'consent, and wish, indeed, you may 'forget me; but never will this effort 'cost you half the pain that word alone "occasions me. Thus faying, Nemorin hastily turned himself about, hid his face with both his hands, and precipitately reached the asylum from whence he came. Stella dared not recall him, but with her head reclined upon her moulder, and her eyes sixed upon the shepherd, she stood quite motionless.--Nemorin having nearly reached the bower, stopped suddenly, but could not help looking affectionately back, and with outstretched hands, and broken voice, he cried adieu, and repeating twice the same, hurried to the deep embowered grove. The shepherdess remained some time in hopes of seeing him return, but he appeared not again. The wretched Stella recalled her favourite ram, which instantly repasted the river, and stie took the road to Massanna, stopping every now and and then; (he had not yet lost sight of the bushes, which overshaded the bower, when, on a sudden, she beheld a young man at the corner of a hedge, who stood there presenting her his hand, and this was Meril. Stella blushed, but not wishing to lose the opportunity, in broken voice, she asked him to follow her into a thicket of limes, which was not far from the river fide; there Meril conducted her, ...
