Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... looks to my dear , kind , ebony - complexioned nursey . " She would not seem so small like , maybe , if her bit of a face weren't most three parts taken up by such big brown eyes , and that thick frizzle of lashes round ' em ...
... looks to my dear , kind , ebony - complexioned nursey . " She would not seem so small like , maybe , if her bit of a face weren't most three parts taken up by such big brown eyes , and that thick frizzle of lashes round ' em ...
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... look- ing exceedingly disposed to further relieve her annoyed feelings by a few more flattering comments on my personal appearance , but the return of grandmamma Denzell at once checked her loquacity . Time rolled on , and the love I ...
... look- ing exceedingly disposed to further relieve her annoyed feelings by a few more flattering comments on my personal appearance , but the return of grandmamma Denzell at once checked her loquacity . Time rolled on , and the love I ...
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... looks , in the Indian matrimonial field , and in the race there it was clear my father confidently expected I would greatly distinguish myself . As can well be imagined , the thought of such a termination of all her holy strivings and ...
... looks , in the Indian matrimonial field , and in the race there it was clear my father confidently expected I would greatly distinguish myself . As can well be imagined , the thought of such a termination of all her holy strivings and ...
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... look of yours , child . Those big brown eyes are such an amusingly picturesque illustration of the word ' perplexity ' whenever you are puzzled . This is my meaning , how- ever : It is not the fashion , pretty one , for men , when their ...
... look of yours , child . Those big brown eyes are such an amusingly picturesque illustration of the word ' perplexity ' whenever you are puzzled . This is my meaning , how- ever : It is not the fashion , pretty one , for men , when their ...
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... , to be sure , when first it appeared amongst us ! " soliloquized my tormentor . An indignant silence on my part . " Look , " he continued , " do you see that ་ poor , tiny white flower ? Well , just such CHARLES BEECHLEY . 13.
... , to be sure , when first it appeared amongst us ! " soliloquized my tormentor . An indignant silence on my part . " Look , " he continued , " do you see that ་ poor , tiny white flower ? Well , just such CHARLES BEECHLEY . 13.
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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.