Dorothy: A TaleBernhard Tauchnitz, 1856 - 315 pages |
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... tion of paying visits , ' returned Dorothy , ' but she can leave it with you , as your duties probably lie in the same direction , and I have no idea of spend- ing this fine afternoon in driving about the streets . ' ' But I have so ...
... tion of paying visits , ' returned Dorothy , ' but she can leave it with you , as your duties probably lie in the same direction , and I have no idea of spend- ing this fine afternoon in driving about the streets . ' ' But I have so ...
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... tion . I know very little of Mr. Law , except that I sat next to him the last time I dined here , and he seemed to be a silly little man , without two ideas in his head . ' As Mr. Law danced assiduously with each Miss Selby in ...
... tion . I know very little of Mr. Law , except that I sat next to him the last time I dined here , and he seemed to be a silly little man , without two ideas in his head . ' As Mr. Law danced assiduously with each Miss Selby in ...
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... tion being directed to what went on at the other end of the table . Sir Stephen's opinion was given on many and various subjects , and she admired the ease and decision with which he expressed himself ; but she wished that his topics ...
... tion being directed to what went on at the other end of the table . Sir Stephen's opinion was given on many and various subjects , and she admired the ease and decision with which he expressed himself ; but she wished that his topics ...
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... tion . ' He spoke with graceful ease , yet Dorothy was disconcerted , and rather disposed to answer by one of the long , low whistles which had , in younger days , been her mode of replying to Robert Selby's gallant speeches ...
... tion . ' He spoke with graceful ease , yet Dorothy was disconcerted , and rather disposed to answer by one of the long , low whistles which had , in younger days , been her mode of replying to Robert Selby's gallant speeches ...
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... and sister to acquiesce so readily in his determina- tion , she expressed and maintained her objections with unusual energy , bringing forward the argu- ments which had been used by Dorothy in former days 64 DOROTHY ,
... and sister to acquiesce so readily in his determina- tion , she expressed and maintained her objections with unusual energy , bringing forward the argu- ments which had been used by Dorothy in former days 64 DOROTHY ,
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acquaintance admiration afraid answer anxious Arthur Vaughan asked Aunt Emma Bagley believe Bessy Blanche Blanche's Broadstairs Chud Chudleigh Clewer Colonel Mow Colonel Mowbray colour considered cousin daughter dear dinner Dora Dora's Dorothy's drawing-room expression eyes Fatal Ring father feeling felt girls glad hand happy hear heard heart Hetherington Chase Hooghley hope Julia Kensington Gardens knew Lady Allan Lance Clifford Lance's laughing least leave Lennox letter looked mamma manner marriage Maude mind Miss Mowbray Mowbray's never Octavo once opinion Oriel College painful papa party pleased quiet racter Ramsgate Rectory remarked repeated ride Robert Selby round satisfaction scarcely seemed silence Sir Stephen sister smile soon speak spirits spoken stay suppose sure talk tears tell things thought tion told tone took turned uncon voice waiting walk wish wonder words young
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Page 57 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 222 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 114 - For early didst thou leave the world, with powers Fresh, undiverted to the world without, Firm to their mark, not spent on other things ; Free from the sick fatigue, the languid doubt, Which much to have tried, in much been baffled, brings.
Page 104 - 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.
Page 25 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
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Page 72 - This is the curse of life ! that not A nobler, calmer train Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must And not because we will.
Page 37 - There are tones that will haunt us, though lonely Our path be o'er mountain or sea ; There are looks that will part from us only When memory ceases to be...
Page 8 - Her heart securely deems, Cold as the flashing of the brooks In the cold moonlight beams. Her sweet affections, free as wind, Nor fear, nor craving feel ; No secret hollow hath her mind For passion to reveal. Her being's law is gentle bliss, Her purpose, and her duty ; And quiet joy her loveliness, And gay delight her beauty. Then let her walk in mirthful pride, Dispensing joy and sadness, By her light spirit fortified In panoply of gladness. The joy she gives shall still be her's, The sorrow shall...