“No!” said he, “I put it to the touch once, and I lost it all. Let her go, — with her stony heart, and her beauty; — how set and terrible her look is now, for all her loveliness of feature! She is afraid I shall speak what will require some stern repression. Let her go. Beauty and heiress as she may be, she will find it hard to meet with a truer heart than mine. Let her go!”
And there was no tone of regret, or emotion of any kind in the voice with which he said good-bye; and the offered hand was taken with a resolute calmness, and dropped as carelessly as if it had been a dead and withered flower.
Tag: period drama
Look back.
period drama + ballet
(requested by anonymous)
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”
Max Irons as Howard Carter in Tutankhamun (2016)
These past years have been an extraordinary privilege.
give me your wardrobe: evelyn carnarvon
I don’t want to go.
persephone's corner 