Wooed and Married: A NovelJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1876 - 498 pages |
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... lady's good - natured face , and , if truth were to be told , her motherly soul yearned to comfort the young cul- prit before her ; but Beatrix , who had hitherto held aloof , struck in here with her calm , sarcastic voice . " I don't ...
... lady's good - natured face , and , if truth were to be told , her motherly soul yearned to comfort the young cul- prit before her ; but Beatrix , who had hitherto held aloof , struck in here with her calm , sarcastic voice . " I don't ...
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... ladies came up the stairs . She would hide sometimes in a dark corner on the landing below and watch them , as one watches a flock of strange birds . What wonderful plumage , she thought ; what white throats and queenly heads ! She ...
... ladies came up the stairs . She would hide sometimes in a dark corner on the landing below and watch them , as one watches a flock of strange birds . What wonderful plumage , she thought ; what white throats and queenly heads ! She ...
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... lady alone . " Certainly the oddest person . A cousin - Dym had never heard of him . Stop ; had not Edith talked often of a Cousin Guy ? Perhaps this was he . What a tall man he was ! big , too , and dressed in an odd foreign sort of ...
... lady alone . " Certainly the oddest person . A cousin - Dym had never heard of him . Stop ; had not Edith talked often of a Cousin Guy ? Perhaps this was he . What a tall man he was ! big , too , and dressed in an odd foreign sort of ...
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... lady of fifty- five - Miss Dale I think they called her - poured it out for me , and the time before that I found a very stout widow lady in charge . " It was impossible not to laugh at Mr. Chichester's mis- chievous tone , and Dym did ...
... lady of fifty- five - Miss Dale I think they called her - poured it out for me , and the time before that I found a very stout widow lady in charge . " It was impossible not to laugh at Mr. Chichester's mis- chievous tone , and Dym did ...
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... lady , why Mr. Chichester's in- vitation to herself was not very pressing . would not like it , and you are quite able to take care of Edith " Mrs. Tressilian without me . " 66 ' True , noblesse oblige . What tiresome things les conve ...
... lady , why Mr. Chichester's in- vitation to herself was not very pressing . would not like it , and you are quite able to take care of Edith " Mrs. Tressilian without me . " 66 ' True , noblesse oblige . What tiresome things les conve ...
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afraid answer arms asked Beatrix beautiful better Birstwith Camden Town child cold Cousin Guy dark dear Delaire door dress Dym's Edith eyes face feel Florence gentle girl glad governess gray Grey Guy Chichester Guy Chichester's Guy's hair hand happy Happy Valley Harrogate head heard heart Honor Honor's Humphrey Humphrey's Ingleside Kelpie Kentish Town Kiddle-a-wink kissed knew lady Lansdowne House Latimer laugh lips look Luke's mind Miss Elliott Miss Nethecote morning mother Nethecote's never night once pain perhaps phrey pity poor replied returned Dym round seemed shook sigh silence sister sitting Skye terrier smile speak squire squire's strange sudden sure Susan sweet talk tears tell things thought tired to-night told tone Tressilian Trichy trouble voice weary whispered Will's William Elliott wish woman wonder Woodside words young
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Page 339 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born ; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue Day : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Page 263 - There are who sigh that no fond heart is theirs, None loves them best — O vain and selfish sigh ! Out of the bosom of His love He spares — The Father spares the Son, for thee to die : For thee He died — for thee He lives again : O'er thee He watches in His boundless reign.
Page 280 - Do you know you would shock any one who did not know you as well as I do ?"
Page 493 - While I do my duty, Struggling through the tide, Whisper Thou of beauty On the other side...
Page 294 - You must remember you are not as young as you used to be, and you ought not to move about so quickly.
Page 336 - Humphrey Nethecote might have felt inclined to lose their hearts to her. " I suppose I shall have to go now," continued Humphrey. " I am putting off the evil moment as long as I can, for, though I wouldn't wish it, it is hard to go home and miss the Duchess.
Page 316 - For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear in the land, and the time of the singing of birds is come.
Page 233 - Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead them me on. The night is dark, and I am far from home ; Lead thou me on. Keep thou my feet ; I do not ask to see The distant scene ; one step enough for me.
Page 77 - ... than Dym, had been thrown on their own resources — girls luxuriously brought up, and taught everything but to govern themselves and teach others, were driven from the fastnesses of happy homes and launched suddenly upon the world. Incompetence seeking competence; youth and helplessness going hand-in-hand to find a stewardship, where they could starve themselves and bring others to beggary. And the beggary of the heart and...
Page 387 - Will, do not leave me ; pray that you may not leave me!" clinging to him with one cold little hand, and speaking in such a weary voice. " Would it help either of us ? Dear, I must go or stay, just at His bidding. I am ready to suffer a little more, or I am ready to...