It is now more than fifty years since the occurrences which I am about to relate caused a strange sensation. The fashionable world, however, is no recorder of traditions; the memory of selfishness seldom reaches far; and the events which occasionally disturb the polite monotony of its pleasant and heartless progress, however stamped with the characters of misery and horror, scarcely outlive the gossip of a season. The appetite for scandal, or for horror, has been sated; the incident can yield no more of interest or novelty; curiosity, frustrated by impenetrable mystery, gives over the pursuit in despair; the tale has ceased to be new, grows stale and flat; and so, in a few years, inquiry subsides into indifference.
购买此电子书可免费获赠一本!
语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 158 ● ISBN 9781911429425 ● 文件大小 0.8 MB ● 出版者 Fractal Press ● 市 Montefranco ● 国家 IT ● 发布时间 2016 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5769514 ● 复制保护 无