The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes, Volume 6Robert Hall Baynes 1869 |
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Page 61
... Harold Seton was writing , all blazing with honest indignation . He was by no means surprised . It was not the first visit of the kind which he had received , nor did he discourage them . She set all conventionalities so daringly at ...
... Harold Seton was writing , all blazing with honest indignation . He was by no means surprised . It was not the first visit of the kind which he had received , nor did he discourage them . She set all conventionalities so daringly at ...
Page 64
... Harold said , trying as much to reassure himself as his groom . " I'll try her two or three times myself , and then she'll get used to it . " " Very well , sir , but I do hope you'll choose a still day for Miss Battersby to go out on ...
... Harold said , trying as much to reassure himself as his groom . " I'll try her two or three times myself , and then she'll get used to it . " " Very well , sir , but I do hope you'll choose a still day for Miss Battersby to go out on ...
Page 65
... Harold looked at her with more admiration than he had ever felt for her before . Generally when they met his attention had been occupied with what she said ; at that moment he was more in the humour to think of what she was . His taste ...
... Harold looked at her with more admiration than he had ever felt for her before . Generally when they met his attention had been occupied with what she said ; at that moment he was more in the humour to think of what she was . His taste ...
Page 67
... Harold came up with her again in a few moments . " I should like to hear the end of that interrupted sentence , Miss Agnes , " he said . " No , please not - I'm very sorry ; my tongue is always running away with me ; I ought not to have ...
... Harold came up with her again in a few moments . " I should like to hear the end of that interrupted sentence , Miss Agnes , " he said . " No , please not - I'm very sorry ; my tongue is always running away with me ; I ought not to have ...
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... Harold thought . In such a frame of mind there would be little danger of her nerve failing her , even should the mare become unmanageable . That did not seem very probable . He was perfectly certain the occasional fluttering of the ...
... Harold thought . In such a frame of mind there would be little danger of her nerve failing her , even should the mare become unmanageable . That did not seem very probable . He was perfectly certain the occasional fluttering of the ...
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Page 1 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 635 - Bridget is so sparing of her speech on most occasions, that when she gets into a rhetorical vein, I am careful how I interrupt it. I could not help, however, smiling at the phantom of wealth which her dear imagination had conjured up out of a clear income of poor hundred pounds a year.
Page 628 - It has been the lot of my cousin, oftener perhaps than I could have wished, to have had for her associates and mine, free-thinkers - leaders, and disciples, of novel philosophies and systems; but she neither wrangles with, nor accepts, their opinions.
Page 641 - ... in more venerable characters, than as a gilded room with tapestry and tapers, where I might live with handsome visible objects. I consider the clouds above me but as a roof beautifully painted, but unable to satisfy the mind : and at last, like the pictures of the apartment of a connoisseur, unable to afford him any longer a pleasure. So fading upon me, from disuse, have been the beauties of Nature, as they have been confinedly called; so ever fresh, and green, and warm are all the inventions...
Page 33 - And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul. Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 16 - No dog was at the threshold, great or small ; No pigeon on the roof — no household creature — No cat demurely dozing on the wall — Not one domestic feature.
Page 290 - Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ; and to thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven...
Page 173 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 636 - ... could you and I at this moment, instead of this quiet argument, by our well-carpeted fireside, sitting on this luxurious sofa — be once more struggling up those inconvenient staircases, pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours, and the delicious Thank God, we are safe...
Page 641 - My attachments are all local, purely local ; I have no passion — or have had none since I was in love, and then it was the spurious engendering of poetry and books — to groves and valleys.