Mistrust

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...know all; and you should have known it before, but that you ever spoke so warmly in favour of the Count, that I was unwilling to grieve you. Well then, Osbright; it is certain, (quite certain!) that the Count of Frankheim caused my poor brother Philip to be poisoned."-.--L--" Indeed? quite certain? and do you know, Blanche, that it is equally certain, nay, much more certain, that the Count of Orrenberg caused my brother to be assassinated in Burnholm wood? ', '_ _--" Oh! most atrocious calumny!. oh 1 falsehood most incredible! what!-my father, whose actions.... "--' '--" My father never did' an unworthy action, either, Blanche."--' ' 0.--" Nay, but I saw with my own cyes the livid spots, withwhich Philip's neck.... "----" I too saw with mine the deep wound, which gaped on poor Joscelyn's bosom."----" The attendants, the physician, all have told me themselves....."'---, ----" Every inmate of Frankheim Castle heard the confession....-----_----" Thatyour father had bribed Philip's nurse, who left us about a week before his illness....--" That assassins were bribed by your father to murder Joscelyn while hunting."----" Nay, whatis more strong, my mother herself assured me.... "----" But what is.still stronger than that is, that your father's crime was actually1confest by the very assassins themselves."-----" Well, Osbright, you surely cannot expect me to see everything with ybur' whose 'heart I know so well, guilty of a crime so base and so atrocious!"--, ----" Does not the argument hold equally good for me, Blanche? your father may be innocent-of Joscelyn's...