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Página 93
... ' It will depend a little , I suppose , on what sort of physic you expect him to swallow , ' said Florence , with a saucy smile . ' What extraordinary things you fancy , ' said Olive . ' You always seem to think there's harm 93 ...
... ' It will depend a little , I suppose , on what sort of physic you expect him to swallow , ' said Florence , with a saucy smile . ' What extraordinary things you fancy , ' said Olive . ' You always seem to think there's harm 93 ...
Página 94
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun. Olive . ' You always seem to think there's harm in everything and everybody . I'm not the least afraid of Gerald's coming home , because I've - because- ' ' Because what ? ' said Florence , laughing . ' Oh , ...
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun. Olive . ' You always seem to think there's harm in everything and everybody . I'm not the least afraid of Gerald's coming home , because I've - because- ' ' Because what ? ' said Florence , laughing . ' Oh , ...
Página 95
... Olive , eagerly . Of course , I flirted - I had nothing else to do but I leave the things to " hide " to my good sister - in - law . I do believe she loves the very ground that Ernest Audaine treads upon . She's not like me . I know ...
... Olive , eagerly . Of course , I flirted - I had nothing else to do but I leave the things to " hide " to my good sister - in - law . I do believe she loves the very ground that Ernest Audaine treads upon . She's not like me . I know ...
Página 96
... Olive , how do you get on with Mrs. Clavering ? ' 6 Pretty well ; only she is very deep , I think , and she's so thick with my arch - enemy Audaine ; he's going to Cowes next week , and she'll be quite alone , excepting for the child ...
... Olive , how do you get on with Mrs. Clavering ? ' 6 Pretty well ; only she is very deep , I think , and she's so thick with my arch - enemy Audaine ; he's going to Cowes next week , and she'll be quite alone , excepting for the child ...
Página 97
... Olive - this is very slow - this London - and Alick's lec- tures and mamma's complaints ! Thank goodness ! That delightful " party's " going down to Cissy's soon , to do the grand- mother and that good old thing at Cowes -old Miss ...
... Olive - this is very slow - this London - and Alick's lec- tures and mamma's complaints ! Thank goodness ! That delightful " party's " going down to Cissy's soon , to do the grand- mother and that good old thing at Cowes -old Miss ...
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.