Gloria
A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Gloria: A Novel<br><br>Her eyes flashed fire! Convulsive rage possessed<br>Her trembling limbs and heaved her laboring breast;<br>Blind to the future, by this rage misled,<br>She pulled down ruin on her reckless head.<br><br>Dryden.<br><br>"David Lindsay, will you marry me"<br><br>The speaker was a girl scarcely past childhood, young, beautiful, good, wealthy, and yet - desperate, as not only her words, but her every look, tone, and gesture proved.<br><br>Her voice was low, her tone steadied by a powerful self-control. She stood there with a pale horror, yet fixed resolution, on her face; as one might stand on the deck of a burning ship, wrought up to choose death between fire and water, ready to escape the flames by plunging into the sea.<br><br>He to whom she spoke was a poor fisherman on the estate, young, strong, healthy and handsome, with the good looks that youth and health give, but bronzed by exposure, roughened by toil and rudely clothed.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.