Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... father , of whom I was very fond . Twelve years have elapsed since that day , and to this hour a vivid impression ... father's palace - like residence near Delhi , its countless swarm of turbaned attendants , its prevailing glow 2 ૭ ...
... father , of whom I was very fond . Twelve years have elapsed since that day , and to this hour a vivid impression ... father's palace - like residence near Delhi , its countless swarm of turbaned attendants , its prevailing glow 2 ૭ ...
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... father for my first performances on the world's great stage , and of the certain and satisfactory carrying out of which no doubt seemed to have been entertained . To begin : I was to reside with his mother , Lady Denzell , until my ...
... father for my first performances on the world's great stage , and of the certain and satisfactory carrying out of which no doubt seemed to have been entertained . To begin : I was to reside with his mother , Lady Denzell , until my ...
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... father took to him- self the consolation of a second wife , in the person of a handsome buxom widow . This lady was ... father's heart for one daughter , was light and pleasant , became heavy and irksome , under an enforced service for ...
... father took to him- self the consolation of a second wife , in the person of a handsome buxom widow . This lady was ... father's heart for one daughter , was light and pleasant , became heavy and irksome , under an enforced service for ...
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... father ; " was ever man so afflicted ! " Now was the moment ; and while the iron was thus at white heat grandmamma struck vigorously . Off went a letter containing a proposal , which , coming at such a time , could not fail of being ...
... father ; " was ever man so afflicted ! " Now was the moment ; and while the iron was thus at white heat grandmamma struck vigorously . Off went a letter containing a proposal , which , coming at such a time , could not fail of being ...
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... father and mother are perplexed and troubled , as am I , at this change in their lovely daughter ( Edith is very lovely ) ; and , quoth father , " If she improves not shortly , I shall do as Charles advises , and take her to London to ...
... father and mother are perplexed and troubled , as am I , at this change in their lovely daughter ( Edith is very lovely ) ; and , quoth father , " If she improves not shortly , I shall do as Charles advises , and take her to London to ...
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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.