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John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)

Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 282

An illustration from John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools, 1858, leaf 282
Vanity led, as it so often does, to the sacrifice of virtue. Her husband discovered that she wasfaithless, by a device borrowed from the old mythology, and not exactly fit to be recorded here. Atany rate it exposed the false wife and treacherous guest to universal contempt and ridicule,… … LANDSCAPE WITH COWS. FROM A PAINTING BY PAUL POTBER. her, abashed and j)enitent, to her senses, and to her husbands feet, to find, strange to say, forgivenessthere ! He must indeed have loved this frail flower, to have taken it, disgraced and sullied as it was,again to his bosom. On pardonne tant…

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