Excerpt from The Peer's Daughters, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Her so little repose then would Raphael appear before her, and like a living volcano, pour forth the burning floods of passion and persuasion, till this hot simoon of love and sophistry, passing from his heart over hers, left her harassed spirit, faint, gasping, and trembling, on the parched desert of her barren life. But no sooner did Valasquez, mistaking phy sical weakness for moral yielding, attempt to urge her father's helpless state, the utter impossibility of his ever being aware, whether she had disobeyed him or not, than her sense of right, with all its refreshing verdure, sprung up in the midst of that wide waste of thorny impediments; and on this one oasis, her weary spirit sought and found its rest; and hope, the solitary star of life's wilderness, beamed down upon her from that heaven, by which, and in which, its promises can alone be fulfilled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.