Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... girls were then quitting school in England to join their mother ; the education of the others was not yet completed . As a natural consequence , over - possession of anything lessens , if not altogether destroys , its value ; and so it ...
... girls were then quitting school in England to join their mother ; the education of the others was not yet completed . As a natural consequence , over - possession of anything lessens , if not altogether destroys , its value ; and so it ...
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... girls ! " wrote my 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 ...
... girls ! " wrote my 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 ...
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... girl , blushing angrily . " And please remember I am not a child ; I shall be twelve years old the fifteenth of this month : you don't call that a child , I should think ? " " Oh , of course not , " with continued CHARLES BEECHLEY . 11.
... girl , blushing angrily . " And please remember I am not a child ; I shall be twelve years old the fifteenth of this month : you don't call that a child , I should think ? " " Oh , of course not , " with continued CHARLES BEECHLEY . 11.
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... . You know her - Mrs . Irskin - and she began almost at once talking of her niece , whom she seemed exceedingly grieved and anxious about — a girl of my age , " she added , looking scrutinizingly 36 RIVERSDALE COURT .
... . You know her - Mrs . Irskin - and she began almost at once talking of her niece , whom she seemed exceedingly grieved and anxious about — a girl of my age , " she added , looking scrutinizingly 36 RIVERSDALE COURT .
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... girl's over - anxious friends might be mistaken , she entered into a lengthened detail of the symptoms slowly but surely develop- ing themselves in her , and as I listened I felt like one receiving her death - warrant ; every point in ...
... girl's over - anxious friends might be mistaken , she entered into a lengthened detail of the symptoms slowly but surely develop- ing themselves in her , and as I listened I felt like one receiving her death - warrant ; every point in ...
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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.