Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... Lady Denzell , waited to receive me . How distinctly my mind's eye sees her now , as there she stood , a sweet , gentle - looking old lady of middle height and clear but pale com- plexion ; and my child's heart opened out at once to her ...
... Lady Denzell , waited to receive me . How distinctly my mind's eye sees her now , as there she stood , a sweet , gentle - looking old lady of middle height and clear but pale com- plexion ; and my child's heart opened out at once to her ...
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... lady " as par excellence she is denominated by all the poor of the country round . " Good lady , ” truly ! —one of the most tender - hearted , pious , sweet - tempered beings in the whole wide world . So it was , however , the ...
... lady " as par excellence she is denominated by all the poor of the country round . " Good lady , ” truly ! —one of the most tender - hearted , pious , sweet - tempered beings in the whole wide world . So it was , however , the ...
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... Lady Denzell , until my seventeenth birthday , and during that period no trouble or expense were to be spared in polishing my manners and perfect- ing my education . Accomplishments were especially to be attended to ; music and dancing ...
... Lady Denzell , until my seventeenth birthday , and during that period no trouble or expense were to be spared in polishing my manners and perfect- ing my education . Accomplishments were especially to be attended to ; music and dancing ...
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... lady was already liberally endowed with off- spring of her own , six children - five daughters , all older than myself , and a son . Three of the girls were then quitting school in England to join their mother ; the education of the ...
... lady was already liberally endowed with off- spring of her own , six children - five daughters , all older than myself , and a son . Three of the girls were then quitting school in England to join their mother ; the education of the ...
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... lady , rather below middle height , and of a most sweet , grave , gentle aspect . Very old she seemed to me ; coeval , in fact , with all those ancient surroundings which harmonized so picturesquely with her appearance . I do not think ...
... lady , rather below middle height , and of a most sweet , grave , gentle aspect . Very old she seemed to me ; coeval , in fact , with all those ancient surroundings which harmonized so picturesquely with her appearance . I do not think ...
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Page 263 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying. She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking!
Page 70 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.