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Ann Radcliffe The Romance of the Forest 1791 Ann Radcliffe FREE FOR EDUCATION Gothic Digital Series @ UFSC British Gothic Novels (1764 - 1820) Gothic Digital Series @ UFSC 1 FICHA TÉCNICA Revisão | Edition and Revision Beatriz Stephanie Ribeiro Design editorial | Book cover and design Alice Ormeneze Organização | Project Coordinator Daniel Serravalle de Sá Núcleo de Estudos Góticos Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Centro de Comunicação e Expressão Bloco B. Sala 120. Campus Universitário – Trindade The Romance of the Forest 1791 Florianópolis – Santa Catarina 88010-970 ✉ [email protected] +55 (48) 3721- 9455 Ann Radcliffe ☎ FICHA CATALOGRÁFICA Catalogação na fonte pela Biblioteca Universitária da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina R125r Radcliffe, Ann The Romance of the Forest: 1791 / Ann Radcliffe. – Florianópolis: UFSC, 2016. 223 p. – (Gothic Digital Series. British Gothic Novels (1764 - 1820)) Inclui bibliografia. ISBN: 978-85-64093-23-2 1. Literatura inglesa - Séc. XVIII-XIX. 2. Ficção gótica (Gênero literário). I. Série. CDU: 820 Florianópolis UFSC 2016 ABOUT THIS E-BOOK THE ROMANCE OF THE FOREST Gothic Digital Series @ UFSC is a student-training project in e-book production and publication. On the principle that making literature available to the public supports a greater global TABLE OF CONTENTS exchange of knowledge, the project seeks to bring classical works of Gothic fiction to a wider audience, providing free and unrestricted access to all of its contents under the terms of the public domain laws. Chapter 1..............................................................................................................................................6 Chapter 2...........................................................................................................................................14 If you want to cite from this digital edition, it is perfectly legitimate to use just the URL. 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A false pride had still operated against his interest, and withheld him from honourable retreat while it was yet in his power: the habits, which he had acquired, “I am a man, enchained him to the scene of his former pleasure; and thus he had continued an expensive stile So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune, of life till the means of prolonging it were exhausted. He at length awoke from this lethargy of That I would set my life on any chance, security; but it was only to plunge into new error, and to attempt schemes for the reparation of To mend it, or be rid on’t.” his fortune, which served to sink him deeper in destruction. The consequence of a transaction, in which he thus engaged, now drove him, with the small wreck of his property, into dangerous and “When once sordid interest seizes on the heart, it freezes up the source of every warm and ignominious exile. liberal feeling; it is an enemy alike to virtue and to taste − this it perverts, and that it annihilates. The time may come, my friend, when death shall dissolve the sinews of avarice, and justice be It was his design to pass into one of the Southern Provinces, and there seek, near the borders permitted to resume her rights.” of the kingdom, an asylum in some obscure village. His family consisted of his wife, and two faithful domestics, a man and woman, who followed the fortunes of their master. Such were the words of the Advocate Nemours to Pierre de la Motte, as the latter stept at midnight into the carriage which was to bear him far from Paris, from his creditors and the The night was dark and tempestuous, and, at about the distance of three leagues from Paris, persecution of the laws. De la Motte thanked him for this last instance of his kindness; the assistance Peter, who now acted as postillion, having drove for some time over a wild heath where many he had given him in escape; and, when the carriage drove away, uttered a sad adieu! The gloom of ways crossed, stopped, and acquainted De la Motte with his perplexity. The sudden stopping of the hour, and the peculiar emergency of his circumstances, sunk him