Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... glancing mischievously at me as he laid his hand over the pocket containing the flattering emblem of my- self gathered in the morning . " Grandmamma says that excess in anything seldom fails of defeating its own ends , " ob- 24 ...
... glancing mischievously at me as he laid his hand over the pocket containing the flattering emblem of my- self gathered in the morning . " Grandmamma says that excess in anything seldom fails of defeating its own ends , " ob- 24 ...
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... glancing alternately at Charles and me- " one day I was walking with papa , and we met a lady who had not long come to Riversdale . You know her - Mrs . Irskin - and she began almost at once talking of her niece , whom she seemed ...
... glancing alternately at Charles and me- " one day I was walking with papa , and we met a lady who had not long come to Riversdale . You know her - Mrs . Irskin - and she began almost at once talking of her niece , whom she seemed ...
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... glanced at the youth , Layton , saying shyly , — 66 ' Well , what must be must be , so there is no help for it . " " The place would change into a dreary wilderness to me without your bright presence , " I heard him murmur fondly in her ...
... glanced at the youth , Layton , saying shyly , — 66 ' Well , what must be must be , so there is no help for it . " " The place would change into a dreary wilderness to me without your bright presence , " I heard him murmur fondly in her ...
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... glances , her glorious eyes , and their rich adornment of silken lashes . poor Two years , with their heavy freight of joys and woes , have rolled over the world since the lost sheep returned . During this space he has studied for the ...
... glances , her glorious eyes , and their rich adornment of silken lashes . poor Two years , with their heavy freight of joys and woes , have rolled over the world since the lost sheep returned . During this space he has studied for the ...
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... Glancing quickly up and , to my extreme annoyance , again detecting me watching him curiously , his brows knit , but whether the same incensed light burned in his eyes that before startled me I know not , for immediately he turned them ...
... Glancing quickly up and , to my extreme annoyance , again detecting me watching him curiously , his brows knit , but whether the same incensed light burned in his eyes that before startled me I know not , for immediately he turned them ...
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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.