Through the shadows, by the author of 'Sidney Grey'.Hurst and Blackett, 1859 |
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... bring a troop of noisy schoolfellows home with them , and to hold a saturnalia of toys on the staircase ; while Susan , the next in age to Ruth , who might have been trusted to watch them , had shut herself up in the store - closet ...
... bring a troop of noisy schoolfellows home with them , and to hold a saturnalia of toys on the staircase ; while Susan , the next in age to Ruth , who might have been trusted to watch them , had shut herself up in the store - closet ...
Page 13
... bring a doleful hour on the entire family . What a relief it would be , Ruth , for a moment , thought idly , if she could change places with some other person , have just one little taste of freedom from the old cares ; try a new sort ...
... bring a doleful hour on the entire family . What a relief it would be , Ruth , for a moment , thought idly , if she could change places with some other person , have just one little taste of freedom from the old cares ; try a new sort ...
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... bringing up some- thing or other about the Meyers , when you know there is nothing ever disturbs aunt Harriet so much . " " Mamma , " said Ruth , with something of the pleasure of a person who approaches a forbidden subject , " I will ...
... bringing up some- thing or other about the Meyers , when you know there is nothing ever disturbs aunt Harriet so much . " " Mamma , " said Ruth , with something of the pleasure of a person who approaches a forbidden subject , " I will ...
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... bringing Harry Meyer to the house had come to light . The penetration of both was at fault ; the close - shut mouth told only that a dignified silence and reserve was the line of conduct determined on for the evening , and they knew ...
... bringing Harry Meyer to the house had come to light . The penetration of both was at fault ; the close - shut mouth told only that a dignified silence and reserve was the line of conduct determined on for the evening , and they knew ...
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... bring you , and of your poor dear mamma to spare you to me . " Fortunately for Caroline's self - complacency , however , the hostess had other guests to re- ceive , and soon glided away . Major Earle was drawn aside by a gentleman with ...
... bring you , and of your poor dear mamma to spare you to me . " Fortunately for Caroline's self - complacency , however , the hostess had other guests to re- ceive , and soon glided away . Major Earle was drawn aside by a gentleman with ...
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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.