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... lady in this pile . -- My ! what a lot ! why every female in town must want to lead . I wonder one ever gets a chambermaid , they all want to do " Lady Macbeth " or " Juliet " ; should n't wonder if I played " Romeo " and " Hamlet ...
... lady in this pile . -- My ! what a lot ! why every female in town must want to lead . I wonder one ever gets a chambermaid , they all want to do " Lady Macbeth " or " Juliet " ; should n't wonder if I played " Romeo " and " Hamlet ...
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... lady I am overrun with scores of applicants . If among the number I might hope to find one with the smallest right to the title ! Oh , yes ! offers , questions , phrases in every form and shape : nobility , spirit , memory , education ...
... lady I am overrun with scores of applicants . If among the number I might hope to find one with the smallest right to the title ! Oh , yes ! offers , questions , phrases in every form and shape : nobility , spirit , memory , education ...
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... lady wants to see you , Sir . Man . Ask her to come in . Plague num- ber two , the more self - possessed aspirant comes herself . Well , that's better than let- ters , one can form some opinion of the appearance at least . A few crusty ...
... lady wants to see you , Sir . Man . Ask her to come in . Plague num- ber two , the more self - possessed aspirant comes herself . Well , that's better than let- ters , one can form some opinion of the appearance at least . A few crusty ...
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... does not know me . I am more changed than I imagined . I am informed the place of leading lady in your company is vacant , and trusting that my tal- ents may enable me to fill it worthily , I 14 George Riddle's Readings .
... does not know me . I am more changed than I imagined . I am informed the place of leading lady in your company is vacant , and trusting that my tal- ents may enable me to fill it worthily , I 14 George Riddle's Readings .
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... lady's window does not think of the danger from the shaky trellis . If Romeo had said , - " What light from yonder window breaks- Aitch - choo - aitchoo ! I fear I'm catching cold , " — all the romance would have gone out of that affair ...
... lady's window does not think of the danger from the shaky trellis . If Romeo had said , - " What light from yonder window breaks- Aitch - choo - aitchoo ! I fear I'm catching cold , " — all the romance would have gone out of that affair ...
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Page 173 - The cataract strong Then plunges along, Striking and raging As if a war waging Its caverns and rocks among; Rising and leaping, Sinking and creeping, Swelling and sweeping, Showering and springing, Flying and flinging, Writhing and wringing, Eddying and whisking, Spouting and frisking, Turning and twisting Around and around With endless rebound: Smiting and fighting, A sight to delight in; Confounding, astounding, Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.
Page 192 - My plans That soar, to earth may fall. Let once my army-leader Lannes Waver at yonder wall " — Out 'twixt the battery-smokes there flew A rider, bound on bound Full-galloping ; nor bridle drew Until he reached the mound.
Page 176 - All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, And this way the water comes down at Lodore.
Page 150 - Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves; Of horrid stabs in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod...
Page 175 - And falling and brawling and sprawling, And driving and riving and striving, And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling, And sounding...
Page 151 - One that had never done me wrong, A feeble man and old: I led him to a lonely field; The moon shone clear and cold: Now here, said I, this man shall die, And I will have his gold!
Page 177 - There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain ; But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.
Page 154 - And still no peace for the restless clay, Will wave or mould allow ; The horrid thing pursues my soul, — It stands before me now ! " The fearful Boy look'd up, and saw Huge drops upon his brow.
Page 149 - Then leaping on his feet upright, Some moody turns he took, — Now up the mead, then down the mead, And past a shady nook, — And, lo! he saw a little boy That pored upon a book.
Page 174 - And hitting and splitting, And shining and twining, And rattling and battling, And shaking and quaking, And pouring and roaring, And waving and raving...