The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and Critical Essays by Many Eminent Writers, Volume 15Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell The Standard, 1900 |
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Page 6816
... negro Topsy , " and the New England " Miss Ophelia . ” The War itself , prolific as it was of poetry and eloquence - was barren of romance , except for Edward Everett Hale's artistic and sympathetic The Man without a Country . The ...
... negro Topsy , " and the New England " Miss Ophelia . ” The War itself , prolific as it was of poetry and eloquence - was barren of romance , except for Edward Everett Hale's artistic and sympathetic The Man without a Country . The ...
Page 6841
... negro , who was the oracle of the family , and who , perched like a raven in a corner of the chimney , would croak forth for a long winter afternoon a string of incredible stories about New England witches - grisly ghosts , horses ...
... negro , who was the oracle of the family , and who , perched like a raven in a corner of the chimney , would croak forth for a long winter afternoon a string of incredible stories about New England witches - grisly ghosts , horses ...
Page 6882
... negro grooms behind them , and Mrs. Mountain , who knew she had made mischief between them and trembled for the result , felt a vast relief that Mr. Wash- ington was gone without a quarrel with the brothers , without , at any rate , an ...
... negro grooms behind them , and Mrs. Mountain , who knew she had made mischief between them and trembled for the result , felt a vast relief that Mr. Wash- ington was gone without a quarrel with the brothers , without , at any rate , an ...
Page 6888
... negro , and talked of the whip for me . ' The Colonel started back , turning very red , and as if struck by a sudden remembrance . " 9 " Great heavens , George ! is it that boyish quarrel you are still recalling ? 99 " Who made you the ...
... negro , and talked of the whip for me . ' The Colonel started back , turning very red , and as if struck by a sudden remembrance . " 9 " Great heavens , George ! is it that boyish quarrel you are still recalling ? 99 " Who made you the ...
Page 6889
... negro servants to disperse thence , who were chattering loudly among one another , and no doubt discussing the quarrel which had just taken place . Edwin , the Colonel's man , returned with his master's portmanteau , and , as he looked ...
... negro servants to disperse thence , who were chattering loudly among one another , and no doubt discussing the quarrel which had just taken place . Edwin , the Colonel's man , returned with his master's portmanteau , and , as he looked ...
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