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... Husband ! " - she gasped , endeavour- ing to drop upon her knees- " Kneel down ! Pray — pray for us ! It is at hand ! " After shouting several times pretty loudly , and pulling the bell repeatedly and violently , one of the servants ...
... Husband ! " - she gasped , endeavour- ing to drop upon her knees- " Kneel down ! Pray — pray for us ! It is at hand ! " After shouting several times pretty loudly , and pulling the bell repeatedly and violently , one of the servants ...
Page 78
... husband at his word- " Don't go away ! -Oh , go on - go on ! It must be done , you know ! Never mind what he says ! He's only a little the worse for liquor now - and - and then the pain ! Go on , doctor ! He'll thank you the more for it ...
... husband at his word- " Don't go away ! -Oh , go on - go on ! It must be done , you know ! Never mind what he says ! He's only a little the worse for liquor now - and - and then the pain ! Go on , doctor ! He'll thank you the more for it ...
Page 80
... husband . had I witnessed that evening ! I hurried home full of agitation at the spectacle I had just quitted , and melancholy apprehensions concerning the one to which I was returning . On reaching my lovely patient's room , I found ...
... husband . had I witnessed that evening ! I hurried home full of agitation at the spectacle I had just quitted , and melancholy apprehensions concerning the one to which I was returning . On reaching my lovely patient's room , I found ...
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... husband for the scene that awaited them , and which I had not particularly described to them . It was with no little trepidation that I heard the startling knock of the general postman ; and with infinite astonishment and doubt that I ...
... husband for the scene that awaited them , and which I had not particularly described to them . It was with no little trepidation that I heard the startling knock of the general postman ; and with infinite astonishment and doubt that I ...
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... husband had been a captain in the East India service , who spent his money faster than he earned it ; so that , on his death , nothing but the most active exertions of numerous friends and relatives preserved his widow and daughter from ...
... husband had been a captain in the East India service , who spent his money faster than he earned it ; so that , on his death , nothing but the most active exertions of numerous friends and relatives preserved his widow and daughter from ...
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Page 245 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due...
Page 338 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Page 240 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 94 - Fear not : believe only, and she ' shall be made whole.' And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. And all wept, and bewailed her : but he said, ' Weep not ; she is not dead, ' but sleepeth." And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, ' Maid, arise.' And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway : and he commanded...
Page 55 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Page 245 - LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong : thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. 8 I cried to thee, O LORD ; and unto the LORD I made supplication. 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Page 334 - He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Page 69 - Drown'd in his own stupendous uproar all The voices of the storm beside ; meanwhile A war of mountains raged upon his- surface ; Mountains each other swallowing, and again New Alps and Andes, from...
Page 220 - Phrygios iaculatus puppibus ignis, squalentem barbam et concretos sanguine crinis volneraque illa gerens, quae circum plurima muros accepit patrios. Ultro flens ipse videbar compellare virum et...
Page 339 - My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all thy days, and let not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness.