Through the shadows, by the author of 'Sidney Grey'.Hurst and Blackett, 1859 |
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... question about the head - dress seemed the crowning perplexity of the evening's anxious labour . Caroline gained no enlight- enment by dangling it over her white fingers , and she turned her bright blue eyes to seek counsel 2 THROUGH ...
... question about the head - dress seemed the crowning perplexity of the evening's anxious labour . Caroline gained no enlight- enment by dangling it over her white fingers , and she turned her bright blue eyes to seek counsel 2 THROUGH ...
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... question for the future . She had brought her mother into very com- fortable chat about Caroline's pretty looks , and was skilfully leading on to one of those confidential talks respecting her early married life , in which Mrs. Brandon ...
... question for the future . She had brought her mother into very com- fortable chat about Caroline's pretty looks , and was skilfully leading on to one of those confidential talks respecting her early married life , in which Mrs. Brandon ...
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... question or two relative to Sebastion's wants and comforts ; and when she had ascertained that he had travelled from London that morning and dined on the road , and intended to sleep at her house that night , her unwonted agitation gave ...
... question or two relative to Sebastion's wants and comforts ; and when she had ascertained that he had travelled from London that morning and dined on the road , and intended to sleep at her house that night , her unwonted agitation gave ...
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... 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 clerks were employed till ...
... 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 clerks were employed till ...
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... question flashed into her mind , " have you had no letters . Did not you get the letters that were written to you two years ago . Have not you heard ? " " Of my mother's death ? -yes , " said Sebastion , bending down his head ; " I got ...
... question flashed into her mind , " have you had no letters . Did not you get the letters that were written to you two years ago . Have not you heard ? " " Of my mother's death ? -yes , " said Sebastion , bending down his head ; " I got ...
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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.