Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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Page 47
... Lucy , Lucy , this will never do ! " Alas ! I little suspected the por- tentous meaning of that short sentence . In the mean time , Peter Patterson began gradually to RETROSPECTION . 47.
... Lucy , Lucy , this will never do ! " Alas ! I little suspected the por- tentous meaning of that short sentence . In the mean time , Peter Patterson began gradually to RETROSPECTION . 47.
Page 52
... Lucy , Lucy , this will never do ! " - after having passed a decent period of widowhood , he announced his intention of bringing me home a mother ! seemed a death - wound to my heart ! The grief for my late loss , which had by this time ...
... Lucy , Lucy , this will never do ! " - after having passed a decent period of widowhood , he announced his intention of bringing me home a mother ! seemed a death - wound to my heart ! The grief for my late loss , which had by this time ...
Page 58
... Lucy ! " she re- plied . But of course my will was the law : → the canvas and the worsteds were bought , and for a few weeks my perseverance triumphed over her incredulity ; but in due time my zeal began gradually to abate , the carpet ...
... Lucy ! " she re- plied . But of course my will was the law : → the canvas and the worsteds were bought , and for a few weeks my perseverance triumphed over her incredulity ; but in due time my zeal began gradually to abate , the carpet ...
Page 62
... you from being there in time , according to your promise , Mrs. Bur- rows ? " 66 Nothing worth mentioning - nothing at all , " said she , " only that Lucy omitted to bring my hat when I desired her ; and 62 RETROSPECTION .
... you from being there in time , according to your promise , Mrs. Bur- rows ? " 66 Nothing worth mentioning - nothing at all , " said she , " only that Lucy omitted to bring my hat when I desired her ; and 62 RETROSPECTION .
Page 63
... Lucy , " said my father , striking his hand violently on the table ; " Lucy , you must obey your mother . " There was a dead silence : but the sa- tisfaction of my mother , and the triumph of Peter , were too ill concealed to escape my ...
... Lucy , " said my father , striking his hand violently on the table ; " Lucy , you must obey your mother . " There was a dead silence : but the sa- tisfaction of my mother , and the triumph of Peter , were too ill concealed to escape my ...
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Page 136 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
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