Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... mean , Charles ? I never understand half you say . The latter laughed heartily , joyously . " I do not know anything that upsets my gravity equal to that look of yours , child . Those big brown eyes are such an amusingly picturesque ...
... mean , Charles ? I never understand half you say . The latter laughed heartily , joyously . " I do not know anything that upsets my gravity equal to that look of yours , child . Those big brown eyes are such an amusingly picturesque ...
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... mean of what she was . Yes ; just such another interestingly blanched , scorched - up bit of vegetation as was that atom of humanity . I will keep you , pretty blossom , --he - m ! keep you for the rest of my life , a memorial of the ...
... mean of what she was . Yes ; just such another interestingly blanched , scorched - up bit of vegetation as was that atom of humanity . I will keep you , pretty blossom , --he - m ! keep you for the rest of my life , a memorial of the ...
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... mean to be more than usually unsparing of my wits and abilities for the next six months , so they had better look to it , " added Charles , gaily ; " it will be no mere schoolboy's strength they will have to contend with , I can tell ...
... mean to be more than usually unsparing of my wits and abilities for the next six months , so they had better look to it , " added Charles , gaily ; " it will be no mere schoolboy's strength they will have to contend with , I can tell ...
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... mean ? Alas ! what does it mean ? " She maketh no plaint , poor pretty creature ! 30 RIVERSDALE COURT .
... mean ? Alas ! what does it mean ? " She maketh no plaint , poor pretty creature ! 30 RIVERSDALE COURT .
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... mean ? " quoth she , evasively . " I mean what has changed you so much within the last year ? You are not a bit like your old self , like what you used to be . You were once my jolliest , merriest little friend and companion , but now ...
... mean ? " quoth she , evasively . " I mean what has changed you so much within the last year ? You are not a bit like your old self , like what you used to be . You were once my jolliest , merriest little friend and companion , but now ...
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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.