phantom in The Last Chance
e, equally free from doubt or fear—the sweet, sad eyes which so rarely gave token of the spirit-light which illumined them, at rarest moments, ‘like melancholy stars,’ of which Mrs. Banneret said they always reminded her. Had she lost, by death, by desertion, by treachery, her soul’s idol, to whom…
- Record ID
- 2,601
- Year
- 1,905
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- Project Gutenberg
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- Record ID
- 2601
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West; Rolf Boldrewood
- Published
- 1905; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- phantom
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Western Australia (WA): B
- State or territory
- WA
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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e, equally free from doubt or fear—the sweet, sad eyes which so rarely gave token of the spirit-light which illumined them, at rarest moments, ‘like melancholy stars,’ of which Mrs. Banneret said they always reminded her. Had she lost, by death, by desertion, by treachery, her soul’s idol, to whom she had been vowed in happy, radiant girlhood’s day? What a ‘phantom of delight’ must she then have appeared to her social world—at that entrancing age, when ‘standing with reluctant feet, where the brook and river meet,’ she had so fully realised the poet’s dream!—the dream of all poets that ever strove to paint the delicious embodiment.
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