Two Ways to Wedlock: A NovelletteRudd & Carleton, 1859 - 253 pages |
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... wife , " do put down that paper for a moment and listen to me . One month from to - day is Julia's birth- day , and I have promised her a fancy dress ball . " He may as well know all at once , she added , mentally ; one shock is more ...
... wife , " do put down that paper for a moment and listen to me . One month from to - day is Julia's birth- day , and I have promised her a fancy dress ball . " He may as well know all at once , she added , mentally ; one shock is more ...
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... wife , impatiently ; " don't you see girls marry well , and obtain excellent settle- ments , just because they have the name of being fashionable , or stylish , or dashing , when others , far more beautiful , and even more wealthy 10 A ...
... wife , impatiently ; " don't you see girls marry well , and obtain excellent settle- ments , just because they have the name of being fashionable , or stylish , or dashing , when others , far more beautiful , and even more wealthy 10 A ...
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... wife's determinations were like " the laws of the Medes and Persians , " as far as he was concerned . His hints of pru- dence were called croaking ; his anxiety to lessen the expenditure for mere show , was stig- matized as meanness and ...
... wife's determinations were like " the laws of the Medes and Persians , " as far as he was concerned . His hints of pru- dence were called croaking ; his anxiety to lessen the expenditure for mere show , was stig- matized as meanness and ...
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... wife lived only in and for the world— that she valued his wealth and position , ap- preciated her acquired consequence as the wife of a millionaire , loved to exhibit the most tastefully furnished house , to give the most perfect ...
... wife lived only in and for the world— that she valued his wealth and position , ap- preciated her acquired consequence as the wife of a millionaire , loved to exhibit the most tastefully furnished house , to give the most perfect ...
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... wife whose principles and tastes agreed with his own ; and when , after the death of his parents , he received his sister into his happy home , it was with the sincere hope that , her heart being softened by sorrow , she might feel that ...
... wife whose principles and tastes agreed with his own ; and when , after the death of his parents , he received his sister into his happy home , it was with the sincere hope that , her heart being softened by sorrow , she might feel that ...
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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.
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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...