Through the shadows, by the author of 'Sidney Grey'.Hurst and Blackett, 1859 |
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... step . What would aunt Har- riet say , if she were to come home just now . I must make them come in . " It served as an excuse for Ruth to follow Caroline to the door , and stand out on the steps too . She got a glimpse of the carriage ...
... step . What would aunt Har- riet say , if she were to come home just now . I must make them come in . " It served as an excuse for Ruth to follow Caroline to the door , and stand out on the steps too . She got a glimpse of the carriage ...
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... step on the stairs caused a little electric thrill to pass through the room , and startled everyone into an attitude of preparation . Mrs. Brandon drew her hand away from between Ruth's two ; Ruth jumped up and restored the stool to its ...
... step on the stairs caused a little electric thrill to pass through the room , and startled everyone into an attitude of preparation . Mrs. Brandon drew her hand away from between Ruth's two ; Ruth jumped up and restored the stool to its ...
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... step about the room , and to the sharp click of the cups and saucers as she prepared the tea , with a sick heart and quivering nerves . When the tea was made , it was time to begin to consult the clock anxiously , and to wonder , as ...
... step about the room , and to the sharp click of the cups and saucers as she prepared the tea , with a sick heart and quivering nerves . When the tea was made , it was time to begin to consult the clock anxiously , and to wonder , as ...
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... steps was heard coming down the hall ; then the door was thrown wide open , and a tall man in a rough coat stood for a moment in the doorway , shading his eyes with his hands , and looking eagerly in , as if to make sure of the identity ...
... steps was heard coming down the hall ; then the door was thrown wide open , and a tall man in a rough coat stood for a moment in the doorway , shading his eyes with his hands , and looking eagerly in , as if to make sure of the identity ...
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Annie Keary. Sebastion meant , but she had hardly courage for such a bold step . Miss Earle interposed . " Ruth wishes us to suppose , " she said , " that Frederick stays out late to - night , that he may attend a lecture given , it ...
Annie Keary. Sebastion meant , but she had hardly courage for such a bold step . Miss Earle interposed . " Ruth wishes us to suppose , " she said , " that Frederick stays out late to - night , that he may attend a lecture given , it ...
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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.