Bressant

Bressant
A Novel

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Bressant by Julian Hawthorne

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A Novel

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nd excitement, bodily and mental both, to keep her in wholesome condition. Has that same restless, feverish devil in her that I used to have; never do to let it feed upon itself! must get her absorbed in outside things!

"But what am I to do?" resumed the professor, sitting up in his chair, and shaking out his shirt-sleeves--for the heat of his meditations had brought on a perspiration; "what can I do--eh? Sophie not in condition to travel--can't leave her to take Cornelia--no one else to take her--and she can't go alone, that's certain! Humph!"

Professor Valeyon paused in his soliloquy, like a man who has turned into a closed court under the impression that it is a thoroughfare, and stared down with upwrinkled forehead at the sole of the kicked-off slipper, indulging the while in a mental calculation of how many days it would take for the hole near the toe to work down to the hole under the instep, and thus render problematical the possibility of keeping the shoe on at all. It might take three weeks, or

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I really wanted to like this novel. The story is about a love triangle concerning two sisters and their father's student. The first half is pretty good, but then it slowly turns into a melodramatic, maudlin mess with an abrupt ending. This may have been an early attempt by the author, because I thoroughly enjoyed his novel "Archibald Malmaison". I guess no author can have success 100% of the time.