The Healers, Volumen 1

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D. Appleton, 1906 - 379 páginas

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Página 419 - If I recollect, his dismal confession runs something like this : " It was in bleak November When I slew them, I remember. As I caught them unawares Drinking tea in rocking-chairs...
Página 417 - There are * great number of characters, and they are all living, breathing, thinking men and women, stimulating in their contrast to the sawdust puppets of so much of our contemporary fiction. Mr. Maartens writes from the viewpoint at once of humorist, philosopher, and man of the world. He does not pelt us with laboriously prepared epigrams, but a quietly wholesome humor sparkles in all his dialogue. His, in short, is a story to enjoy in leisurely fashion and be grateful for." — New York Sun. "...
Página 419 - D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. WORKS OF ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. IOLE Colored inlay on the cover, decorative borders, headpieces, thumb-nail sketches, and tail-pieces. Frontispiece and three full-page illustrations. i2mo. Ornamental Cloth, $1.25. Does anybody remember the opera of The Inca, and that heart-breaking episode where the Court Undertaker, in a morbid desire to increase his professional skill, deliberately accomplishes the destruction of his middle-aged relatives in order to inter them for...
Página 210 - Sir Jasper was a shadowy man, white-faced, white-whiskered, white-waistcoated, solemn. He made ten to twelve thousand a year out of human insanity, just as so many of his colleagues make similar amounts out of human imbecility.
Página 212 - Sir William was a cheery little man, bright and brisk. He shot his sentences like volleys. " My dear sir, if one lunatic condemned a race, how does anybody happen to be outside Bedlam ! " " Still, I thought that modern science " Sir William jumped round in his chair.
Página 85 - He looked anxiously askance at Edward, waiting for that horrible expression, the sort of hidden contemptuousness which comes so frequently, when religion is mentioned, into the smileless eyes of the medical man. " Thanks,
Página 252 - Jew into this night of nights. ' In such a night, did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew !
Página 255 - BO still, so soft, in earth and air, Yon scarce would start to meet a spirit there, Secnre that naught of evil could delight To walk in such a scene, on such a night ! ' So, you see, there is no reason to be nervous,
Página 203 - You are in love with her, and she is in love with you, and of course she can become a governess, if you like ! " Miss MacClachlin slapped down her jeweled hands on her gray satin knees. " And the sooner, the better,

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