Through the shadows, by the author of 'Sidney Grey'.Hurst and Blackett, 1859 |
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... asking mal - à - propos questions . He had not been in the house an hour , and yet he had touched already on a sore subject . He was asking where Frederick was , and observing that Mr. Gadstone must keep uncommonly late hours , if his ...
... asking mal - à - propos questions . He had not been in the house an hour , and yet he had touched already on a sore subject . He was asking where Frederick was , and observing that Mr. Gadstone must keep uncommonly late hours , if his ...
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... asked ; " you must have made a mistake in the name , or I misun- derstood you - Maxwell Meyer , did you say ? " Ruth had framed her sentence cautiously , to avoid a direct falsehood , and how to recon- struct it judiciously , and keep ...
... asked ; " you must have made a mistake in the name , or I misun- derstood you - Maxwell Meyer , did you say ? " Ruth had framed her sentence cautiously , to avoid a direct falsehood , and how to recon- struct it judiciously , and keep ...
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... asked : " Does Mr. Meyer live at the Leasows still , and is Max with him ? " " They say that Mr. Meyer is likely to marry again almost immediately , " observed Miss Earle , without looking up from her knitting . " But it is not true ...
... asked : " Does Mr. Meyer live at the Leasows still , and is Max with him ? " " They say that Mr. Meyer is likely to marry again almost immediately , " observed Miss Earle , without looking up from her knitting . " But it is not true ...
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... asked . My words , I have long noticed , are of no avail . You may well look surprised , Sebastion , but you must prepare yourself for seeing me treated with contempt in my own house now . It is not precisely what I was once accustomed ...
... asked . My words , I have long noticed , are of no avail . You may well look surprised , Sebastion , but you must prepare yourself for seeing me treated with contempt in my own house now . It is not precisely what I was once accustomed ...
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... that rather different people are here , and that , perhaps , be- fore the end of the evening , some one will be asked to expound that is considered the sign VOL . I. E in Kingsmills ; there are many who will not go THROUGH THE SHADOWS . 49.
... that rather different people are here , and that , perhaps , be- fore the end of the evening , some one will be asked to expound that is considered the sign VOL . I. E in Kingsmills ; there are many who will not go THROUGH THE SHADOWS . 49.
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Page 171 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 128 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise ! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies ; And with his hard rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes. Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Page 268 - there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having anything to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.
Page 215 - THE world's a room of sickness, where each heart Knows its own anguish and unrest ; The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, Is his who skills of comfort best ; Whom by the softest step and gentlest tone Enfeebled spirits own, And love to raise the languid eye, When, like an angel's wing, they feel him fleeting by...
Page 176 - O SWEET pale Margaret, O rare pale Margaret, What lit your eyes with tearful power, Like moonlight on a falling shower ? Who lent you, love, your mortal dower Of pensive thought and aspect pale, Your melancholy sweet and frail As perfume of the cuckoo flower ? From the westward-winding flood, From the evening-lighted wood, From all things outward you have won A tearful grace, as tho' you stood Between the rainbow and the sun.
Page 260 - Camelot. From the bank and from the river He flashed into the crystal mirror, Tirra lirra', by the river Sang Sir Lancelot.
Page 40 - ... discourse of the affairs of others, and giving of characters. These are in a manner the same: and one can scarce call it an indifferent subject, because discourse upon it almost perpetually runs into somewhat criminal. And first of all, it were very much to be wished that this did not take up so great a part of conversation ; because it is indeed a subject of a dangerous nature.