Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... distress poor mamma , she is so delicate . Besides , I was not sure you know at that time there really was much seriously the matter with me - if anything the matter at all , indeed . I looked strong and well then . I was neither thin ...
... distress poor mamma , she is so delicate . Besides , I was not sure you know at that time there really was much seriously the matter with me - if anything the matter at all , indeed . I looked strong and well then . I was neither thin ...
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... distressed me as much as did his words . I could not think what was the feeling in his soul to produce it . But , thanks to our heavenly Father , no one is now so cheerfully patient as beauteous Edith . " It is God's will , " says the ...
... distressed me as much as did his words . I could not think what was the feeling in his soul to produce it . But , thanks to our heavenly Father , no one is now so cheerfully patient as beauteous Edith . " It is God's will , " says the ...
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... distress , and wasting their own health and strength endeavouring to restore mine . But it is cruel in me to make you unhappy by speaking in this dismal way , " she added more lightly , looking tenderly in my face , and reading there ...
... distress , and wasting their own health and strength endeavouring to restore mine . But it is cruel in me to make you unhappy by speaking in this dismal way , " she added more lightly , looking tenderly in my face , and reading there ...
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... distress upon his family , and had adopted this method ( oh , mistaken kindness ! ) of saving them from it . But upon his arrival in Oxford Dr. Beechley learned that the very reverse was the case . Not only had Charles scrupulously ...
... distress upon his family , and had adopted this method ( oh , mistaken kindness ! ) of saving them from it . But upon his arrival in Oxford Dr. Beechley learned that the very reverse was the case . Not only had Charles scrupulously ...
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... distress of the latter , he assisted him by every means in his power to discover some trace of his lost son . All efforts proved vain , however . His most intimate associates were as profoundly ignorant of the runaway's whereabouts as ...
... distress of the latter , he assisted him by every means in his power to discover some trace of his lost son . All efforts proved vain , however . His most intimate associates were as profoundly ignorant of the runaway's whereabouts as ...
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albeit amiable amused angry answer beautiful Beechley's better Bluebell Wood boostle brother Captain Bell character Charles Beechley Charley Charley's cheeks cheerful Cherrup child Coomb Hill countenance damsel daughter dear boy dear Sariann delightful distress Dora Bell Edith Ennis Denzell exclaimed expression eyes face fair lady father fear feelings felt forget friends gazing George Bell girl glancing grandmamma grave happy head heart honour interposed Jeffry Johnny Lady Denzell laughed look Lucy Bell mamma mammy manner Mardyke matter merry mind Miss Pitt Mistress Monica Monica Dormer mother never Oak Cliff opinion oriel window painful pale party picnic pleasant present question quoth rector Rectory rejoined replied Riversdale Court Robert Layton seemed silence sister smile soft eyes sorrow speaking spirit sure sweet tell temper thing thought tion tone Tootee tower of Babel Tursey voice window wish words young
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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.