Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... experienced at sight of the life- less gloom and unadorned heaviness of the great old entrance - hall of Riversdale Court - unadorned save for the huge terrific - looking stags ' heads and horns , dingy portraits , and gigantic organ ...
... experienced at sight of the life- less gloom and unadorned heaviness of the great old entrance - hall of Riversdale Court - unadorned save for the huge terrific - looking stags ' heads and horns , dingy portraits , and gigantic organ ...
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... experience ; think of the years of practice he has had , and of the hundreds of patients he has prescribed for , suffering from every species of chest complaint -every kind of consumptive disease . " Weeks have passed since that day in ...
... experience ; think of the years of practice he has had , and of the hundreds of patients he has prescribed for , suffering from every species of chest complaint -every kind of consumptive disease . " Weeks have passed since that day in ...
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... experience of Charles Beechley goes —and it extends , you know , through several years - I do not think there exists a young man for whom a father has less cause to fear on that account than for him . I would , without hesi- tation ...
... experience of Charles Beechley goes —and it extends , you know , through several years - I do not think there exists a young man for whom a father has less cause to fear on that account than for him . I would , without hesi- tation ...
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... experiences until now . Nor was she sparing of the latter combination at present . My complaints against Charles , for whom the kind soul retained a warm affec- tion , despite his strange conduct , she regarded as mere whimsies not ...
... experiences until now . Nor was she sparing of the latter combination at present . My complaints against Charles , for whom the kind soul retained a warm affec- tion , despite his strange conduct , she regarded as mere whimsies not ...
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... experiences are so very limited she can know little or nothing about such things . You have never been to a large ... experience does others , " rejoined Charles , moodily . 66 Exactly so , you dear old cynic , " quoth she , a smile ...
... experiences are so very limited she can know little or nothing about such things . You have never been to a large ... experience does others , " rejoined Charles , moodily . 66 Exactly so , you dear old cynic , " quoth she , a smile ...
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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.