Two Ways to Wedlock: A NovelletteRudd & Carleton, 1859 - 253 pages |
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... thing forward , only a little justifiable coquetry , which is natural to all women ; after all , she is not your sister . " " She is the same to me , " he answered , " and there is nothing of the coquette about her . " " Well , never ...
... thing forward , only a little justifiable coquetry , which is natural to all women ; after all , she is not your sister . " " She is the same to me , " he answered , " and there is nothing of the coquette about her . " " Well , never ...
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... things ; the effort was too evident , and after a forced question or two , they would become silent again . Mrs. Sumner looked sad and anxious , and scarcely seemed to hear anything that was said . " This will never do , " whispered one ...
... things ; the effort was too evident , and after a forced question or two , they would become silent again . Mrs. Sumner looked sad and anxious , and scarcely seemed to hear anything that was said . " This will never do , " whispered one ...
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... things beautiful , quick , sensitive , sympathetic , and capable of the loftiest heroism , the most intense devotion . Towards the close of the winter , Cornelia received a letter from an old school friend who had returned home to ...
... things beautiful , quick , sensitive , sympathetic , and capable of the loftiest heroism , the most intense devotion . Towards the close of the winter , Cornelia received a letter from an old school friend who had returned home to ...
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... not true . " " Truth is often the worst thing you can say about people , Mrs. Spencer , " answered Burton . " But I think Miss Sumner has won your roses , ' and he pointed to Helen , who had just finished 52 THE CREST OF THE WAVE .
... not true . " " Truth is often the worst thing you can say about people , Mrs. Spencer , " answered Burton . " But I think Miss Sumner has won your roses , ' and he pointed to Helen , who had just finished 52 THE CREST OF THE WAVE .
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... thing I try to do for her ; but I must mind the shop , and it's little , after all . " To - day she's very bad , intirely . I took her some broth at dinner , and she just tasted it , and I asked her would I go for a docther ? " There's ...
... thing I try to do for her ; but I must mind the shop , and it's little , after all . " To - day she's very bad , intirely . I took her some broth at dinner , and she just tasted it , and I asked her would I go for a docther ? " There's ...
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Page 114 - 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.
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Page 103 - Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality, And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore; Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea?
Page 78 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
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Page 225 - Such was the end of one of the noblest and best local preachers we ever had the privilege of associating with. It was, indeed, a privilege to be associated with him; he was so full of love to God and man, and of kindly, good words, that one could hardly be with him without feeling...