Such things are, by the author of 'Recommended to mercy'. |
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Página 31
... Harley's dead . A deuced sudden attack ! Gout in the stomach ! Who'd have thought it ? It was only a few days ago - Wed- nesday I think it was - I saw him on the steps of the United Service , looking as hale- ' ' And now there's only ...
... Harley's dead . A deuced sudden attack ! Gout in the stomach ! Who'd have thought it ? It was only a few days ago - Wed- nesday I think it was - I saw him on the steps of the United Service , looking as hale- ' ' And now there's only ...
Página 32
... Harley , the one that will inherit , was at Oxford ; we met him once , when we were staying at the Lakes . ' But after all it isn't sure he'll ever be Lord Ashington - the admiral is only seventy- ' 6 And in his second childhood ; for ...
... Harley , the one that will inherit , was at Oxford ; we met him once , when we were staying at the Lakes . ' But after all it isn't sure he'll ever be Lord Ashington - the admiral is only seventy- ' 6 And in his second childhood ; for ...
Página 65
... Harley , clad in his deepest mourning , sat by his hostess in her drawing room at Ryde . ' Only three , there's so much going on at home . Home , ' he repeated , mournfully ; ' it's a strange word to me , and after all I think I turn to ...
... Harley , clad in his deepest mourning , sat by his hostess in her drawing room at Ryde . ' Only three , there's so much going on at home . Home , ' he repeated , mournfully ; ' it's a strange word to me , and after all I think I turn to ...
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... Harley , I am sure . And you will have to be the host , and help us ladies , who have no gentlemen belonging to us . ' Alick , who was always glad to please his own and Cousin Susan's friend , entered , with a cheerful , happy spirit ...
... Harley , I am sure . And you will have to be the host , and help us ladies , who have no gentlemen belonging to us . ' Alick , who was always glad to please his own and Cousin Susan's friend , entered , with a cheerful , happy spirit ...
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... Harley's dead . A sudden death , poor man ; and then he adds -he hears the people talking of the future earl . Who is he ? Where ? Susan , you do not know , perhaps , that I am this man the clubs are talking of - I , who have lived a ...
... Harley's dead . A sudden death , poor man ; and then he adds -he hears the people talking of the future earl . Who is he ? Where ? Susan , you do not know , perhaps , that I am this man the clubs are talking of - I , who have lived a ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adolphus alarm amongst Annesley Annesley's Ashington asked awhile began better called CHAPTER child Chrissy's Christina Colonel Aylmer comfort companion course cross-stitch dark darling dear Cousin Chrissy dear Miss Llewellen Dolly drawing-room dread Drummond ears eyes face fancy fear feel felt Florence Harley fool gentle gentleman Gerald girl hand happy Harley's heard heart hope Jephson knew laugh lips listening look Lord George lover Maggie Maggie's major-domo Margaret marriage married Mayford mind Miss Brigham Miss Chrissy Miss Christina's mortification nervous ness never night old maid Olive once Orchard Street pale perhaps poor Portsmouth pre-Raphaelite quiet Raynham Fletcher remarked reply Ryde seemed short silence smile sound speak spirits STAMFORD STREET strange sure Susan tell there's thing Thomson thought tion trembling trust truth turn voice waiting walk whilst whispered wish woman women words yacht young ladies
Pasajes populares
Página 136 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth her deathbed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. Come, months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array; Follow the bier Of the dead cold year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the...
Página 166 - Of the hearts that daily break, Of the tears that hourly fall, Of the many, many troubles of life, That grieve this earthly ball...
Página 42 - Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold...
Página 233 - tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Página 93 - Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Página 65 - Me and my friends here, this delightful night, That power itself has not one half the might Of gentleness. 'Tis want to all true wealth ; The uneasy madman's force, to the wise health ; Blind downward beating, to the eyes that see ; Noise to persuasion, doubt to certainty...
Página 28 - Nothing ! if they bite and kick? Out with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass : The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
Página 198 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Página 93 - But ever and anon of griefs subdued There comes a token like a Scorpion's sting, Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever...
Página 78 - The clodded earth goes up in sweet-breathed flowers ; In music dies poor human speech, And into beauty blow those hearts of ours, When Love is born in each.