Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... opinion by my mother - in - law , he dis- patched a willing and grateful acceptance of her proposal . And now our one great grief being removed for I too had come to regard the threatened separation from grandmamma as , next to her ...
... opinion by my mother - in - law , he dis- patched a willing and grateful acceptance of her proposal . And now our one great grief being removed for I too had come to regard the threatened separation from grandmamma as , next to her ...
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... you are puzzled . This is my meaning , how- ever : It is not the fashion , pretty one , for men , when their education is , according to the world's opinion , completed , to live at home under 10 RIVERSDALE COURT . CHARLES BEECHLEY.
... you are puzzled . This is my meaning , how- ever : It is not the fashion , pretty one , for men , when their education is , according to the world's opinion , completed , to live at home under 10 RIVERSDALE COURT . CHARLES BEECHLEY.
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A Novel Mrs. Forrest-Grant. world's opinion , completed , to live at home under paternal , maternal , or grandmaternal care until some desirable party puts in an appear- ance and woos , wins , and carries off the prize to a wigwam of his ...
A Novel Mrs. Forrest-Grant. world's opinion , completed , to live at home under paternal , maternal , or grandmaternal care until some desirable party puts in an appear- ance and woos , wins , and carries off the prize to a wigwam of his ...
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... opinion the latter was more than atoned for by their bright and powerfully intel- lectual expression , especially the eyes , which were of a deep - blue grey . I have read in the life of Hogg , the Ettrick Shepherd , that when under the ...
... opinion the latter was more than atoned for by their bright and powerfully intel- lectual expression , especially the eyes , which were of a deep - blue grey . I have read in the life of Hogg , the Ettrick Shepherd , that when under the ...
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... my visit ; I simply wished to learn his true opinion of my case - nothing more . If I had mistaken the symptoms , and they proceeded from no serious cause , medicine would be unnecessary ; if , on 40 RIVERSDALE COURT .
... my visit ; I simply wished to learn his true opinion of my case - nothing more . If I had mistaken the symptoms , and they proceeded from no serious cause , medicine would be unnecessary ; if , on 40 RIVERSDALE COURT .
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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.