Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... dear , kind , ebony - complexioned nursey . " She would not seem so small like , maybe , if her bit of a face weren't most three parts taken up by such big brown eyes , and that thick frizzle of lashes round ' em , " objected the house ...
... dear , kind , ebony - complexioned nursey . " She would not seem so small like , maybe , if her bit of a face weren't most three parts taken up by such big brown eyes , and that thick frizzle of lashes round ' em , " objected the house ...
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... dear grandmamma for any party , as you call them , in the world . " A perfect roar of laughter followed this answer . " You , you chicken ! Why you are actually still in the very middle of the doll - and - pinafore You talk of marrying ...
... dear grandmamma for any party , as you call them , in the world . " A perfect roar of laughter followed this answer . " You , you chicken ! Why you are actually still in the very middle of the doll - and - pinafore You talk of marrying ...
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... dear old drawing- room , for in addition to the large oriel window there was another facing the south , equally broad and high , and of like antique construc- tion ; thus in the coolest or hottest weather we could generally regulate the ...
... dear old drawing- room , for in addition to the large oriel window there was another facing the south , equally broad and high , and of like antique construc- tion ; thus in the coolest or hottest weather we could generally regulate the ...
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... dear boy , " interrupted grandmamma , anxiously ; " you have been looking far from well , lately - very pale , much paler than at your age you ought to look . " " Oh , that is nothing ! " replied Charles , in the same joyous tone ; " in ...
... dear boy , " interrupted grandmamma , anxiously ; " you have been looking far from well , lately - very pale , much paler than at your age you ought to look . " " Oh , that is nothing ! " replied Charles , in the same joyous tone ; " in ...
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... dear boy , ' the race is not always to the swift , nor the battle to the strong ; moreover , I do not think you such a pillar of strength as you thus unreflect- ingly consider yourself . " He laughed his light , pleasant laugh upon ...
... dear boy , ' the race is not always to the swift , nor the battle to the strong ; moreover , I do not think you such a pillar of strength as you thus unreflect- ingly consider yourself . " He laughed his light , pleasant laugh upon ...
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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.