Edgeworth's Rosamond Author:Maria Edgeworth Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mrs. White. But my chief objection is on your own account.' ' My own account! O, my dear mother, nothing in this world could make me so hap- ' Yes, my dear... more », I know that, to your kind heart and generous temper, it would be a great pleasure to do all this—it would be as great a reward as I could give you. But. Rosamond, do you think you deserve to be rewarded '?' ' I acknowledge that I do not,' said Rosamond ; ' but have not I been punished enough, mother ? I see so strongly the bad consequences of my folly and imprudence, I. cannot be more convinced than I am, nor more resolved never to fall into the same fault again. All that I have felt has made such a deep impression upon me, I never, never can forget it.' ' Do you recollect your former good resolutions, my dear Rosamond,' said her mother, ' and the deep impression made by reading that affecting story ?' ' I do, mother,' said Rosamond, coloring; ' and I cannot conceive how I could ever forget it, when I was so very much struck and touched by it, and so resolved! But,' added she, after a pause, ' I do not mean it as an excuse; but I may say that I do not know, at least I was not quite sure that it was a true story; and certainly no story can make such an impression as what is true, and especially what really'has happened to oneself.' ' And why, Rosamond ? Shall I tell you 1' said her mother. ' If you please, mother, and if you can.' ' One reason,' said her mother, ' may be that the consequences of our actions last longer in real life than in fiction. The moral of a story is read or perceived in three or four minutes; the consequences of our own actions last often for months, for years. If they did not, perhaps we should forget them, and profit as little by experience, even by our own experience, as by good...« less