Two Ways to Wedlock: A NovelletteRudd & Carleton, 1859 - 253 pages |
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... Voice of the Sphinx ..... CHAPTER IV . Retrospect . The Invalid's Story . - Early Days.- Life's Changes . - The Warning . - The Widowed Mother . - The Generous Merchant . - Adoption ..... CHAPTER V. These Children ! -Home Teaching ...
... Voice of the Sphinx ..... CHAPTER IV . Retrospect . The Invalid's Story . - Early Days.- Life's Changes . - The Warning . - The Widowed Mother . - The Generous Merchant . - Adoption ..... CHAPTER V. These Children ! -Home Teaching ...
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... voice , he added , " what advantage , Matilda , can there be to a young girl , in having her name on every one's lip ; her appearance criticised as if she were an opera dancer ? I think the less a young lady is talked about , the better ...
... voice , he added , " what advantage , Matilda , can there be to a young girl , in having her name on every one's lip ; her appearance criticised as if she were an opera dancer ? I think the less a young lady is talked about , the better ...
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... voice from the head of the stairs , " cousin Oscar has come , and we are ready for your list . " Mrs. Lyndsay was not sorry for the inter- ruption ; she thought she had said enough for the present . She could not hope to make her ...
... voice from the head of the stairs , " cousin Oscar has come , and we are ready for your list . " Mrs. Lyndsay was not sorry for the inter- ruption ; she thought she had said enough for the present . She could not hope to make her ...
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... voice of Matilda Sumner so enslaved him that he forgot to scrutinize , and believed that the lovely exterior was the true index of as lovely a soul . Bitter had been his disappointment , when the truth was gradually forced upon him ...
... voice of Matilda Sumner so enslaved him that he forgot to scrutinize , and believed that the lovely exterior was the true index of as lovely a soul . Bitter had been his disappointment , when the truth was gradually forced upon him ...
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... voice . " Aunt Lyndsay , " exclaimed Oscar , “ you are not going to invite him ! " " Why should I not ? He will be a great acquisition . " " He is very dissipated , aunt ; he frequents gambling saloons , and is the companion of the ...
... voice . " Aunt Lyndsay , " exclaimed Oscar , “ you are not going to invite him ! " " Why should I not ? He will be a great acquisition . " " He is very dissipated , aunt ; he frequents gambling saloons , and is the companion of the ...
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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.
Page 62 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 257 - WILL SEND ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BOOKS, BY MAIL, postage free, TO ANY PART OF THE UNITED STATES. THIS CONVENIENT AND VERY SAFE MODE MAY BE ADOPTED WHEN THE NEIGHBORING BOOKSELLERS ARE NOT SUPPLIED WITH THE DESIRED WORK. NOTHING TO WEAR. A Satirical Poem. By WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER.
Page 88 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 173 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
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.
Page 9 - WE sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, suddenly, We look up to the great wide sky, Inquiring wherefore we were born . . . For earnest, or for jest...
Page 149 - Beneath the gas-fixtures we whispered our love. Without any romance, or raptures, or sighs, Without any tears in Miss Flora's blue eyes, Or blushes, or transports, or such silly actions, — It was one of the quietest business transactions, With a very small sprinkling of sentiment, if any, And a very large diamond imported by Tiffany.
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...