By Mary Cowden Clarke
ISBN-10: 1108001262
ISBN-13: 9781108001267
Mary Cowden Clarke (1809-98) was once the daughter of the writer Vincent Novello. She produced an entire concordance to Shakespeare's works in 1845, and her fascination with the performs ended in her publishing in 1850 a sequence of imaginitive debts of the girlhood of a few of his heroines. Her purpose used to be 'to think the prospective conditions and affects of scene, occasion, and affiliate, surrounding the baby lifetime of his heroines, which would have conduced to originate and foster these germs of personality regarded of their adulthood as via him constructed; to conjecture what could have been the 1st imperfect dawnings of that which he has proven us within the meridian blaze of perfection'. those 'prequels' supply a back-story that is outstanding in its subversive interpretation of the performs and particularly of the function of the 'hero'. quantity 1 contains the tales of Portia and girl Macbeth.
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Exclaimed Madame Ursula. " " But I'm not a chit—I'm heiress of Belmont—Lisetta told me so ; and she said I needn't learn my letters if I didn't like—-^and I don't like. Besides, I want to ride with cugino mio; and I won't say my letters till THE HEIRESS OF BELMONT. 39 you promise I shall have done in time to come back for my ride. Nasty letters ! " And the child uttered the last words with flashing eyes, and an insolent lip. Madame Ursula stalked back, and seized the little rebel whom her own injudicious unrelenting had created.
While the presence of Portia thus doubled and trebled all the previous delight that the two students had derived from these scenes, she herself tasted a pleasure she had never before known, and for the first time in her life, this hitherto solitary young creature might be said to learn the true happiness of existence. She had till lately lived in complete seclusion beneath her sole surviving parent's roof at Verona; and it was only since the recent period of their father's death, that Bellario had brought her to Padua to share his humble dwelling.
It seemed as if such an idea as the possibility of love growing out of friendship, had never suggested itself to his mind. He stood still, regarding them both, with an air of perplexity that might have amused Guido upon any other occasion. At present, however, he did not even see it; his whole soul was in his eyes, and they were riveted upon Portia only, who remained rooted to the spot, and covered with innocent blushes. " His sister said nothing; but after a moment's pause, she drew her hand softly from the brotherly arm to which she had hitherto clung, and creeping round to his other side, she again placed one arm within his, and held forth the other with a faltering motion, as if it sought to resume its former restingplace upon that of Guido.