Everley [by miss Cornish].1855 |
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... feel weak and wavering , and comfort you when you feel lonely and solitary , ( as most people do at times , ) and guide you when you are doubtful and uncertain . " " And I shall need strengthening and guiding , Georgy , for I shall be ...
... feel weak and wavering , and comfort you when you feel lonely and solitary , ( as most people do at times , ) and guide you when you are doubtful and uncertain . " " And I shall need strengthening and guiding , Georgy , for I shall be ...
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... feel as if I were parting with an aunt instead of a school- mistress . But now it is getting late , and you have to be up early to - morrow . Good night , dearest Evelyn , will you wear this ring in remembrance of our friendship , and ...
... feel as if I were parting with an aunt instead of a school- mistress . But now it is getting late , and you have to be up early to - morrow . Good night , dearest Evelyn , will you wear this ring in remembrance of our friendship , and ...
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... feel that her whole heart was responding to the words her lips uttered . It was in vain that she endeavoured to escape from the drawing - room before her sisters retired , Augusta always wanted her particularly to stay till they went ...
... feel that her whole heart was responding to the words her lips uttered . It was in vain that she endeavoured to escape from the drawing - room before her sisters retired , Augusta always wanted her particularly to stay till they went ...
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... feeling against discussing her family in any way , and she could not have told her own difficulties without laying them ... feel that they loved and valued her , and that she was of use to them , and not a nonentity in her home . It was ...
... feeling against discussing her family in any way , and she could not have told her own difficulties without laying them ... feel that they loved and valued her , and that she was of use to them , and not a nonentity in her home . It was ...
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... feel sure that they were dearest on earth to each other , she could be very contented and happy to be single all her life . She had heard and read of marriage being looked upon and made use of in a mere mercenary light , and for ...
... feel sure that they were dearest on earth to each other , she could be very contented and happy to be single all her life . She had heard and read of marriage being looked upon and made use of in a mere mercenary light , and for ...
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amusement Annie asked Evelyn Augusta and Mary Bishop of Brechin bonnet Brent Cambridge Camden Society Captain Kynaston carriage Christian Church cloth colour comfort coner Crayford dance daughter dear mamma dearest delight dress duty Eaton Square Edgar Ethelstone Evelyn felt Evelyn thought Everley exclaimed Evelyn eyes face Fairy Bower Fcap feel flowers friends Georgina Georgy girl give glad hand happy Harriet Harry Haughton hear heard heart Holy Holy Communion hope kissed knew Lady Trevor laughed leave letter live look Lynwood Park Lyttleton married mind Miss Falconer morning morocco mother never nice papa parish pleasant pleased poor Prayers quiet Raymond Redbourn remarked replied Evelyn Rolph scarcely seemed Sir Charles sister smile sure talk tell thank things told tone voice W. F. Hook walk week wish wonder Wortley young
Popular passages
Page 216 - Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place.
Page 474 - No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown / Responds unto his own.
Page 268 - 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 336 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Page 492 - Sweet is the smile of home ; the mutual look When hearts are of each other sure ; Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook, The haunt of all affections pure...
Page 378 - If you have no power of giving: An arm of aid to the weak, A friendly hand to the friendless, Kind words, so short to speak, But whose echo is endless: The world is wide, — these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are All.
Page 455 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
Page 11 - Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on ! The night is dark and I am far from home; Lead thou me on ! Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me.