Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... pleasant , became heavy and irksome , under an enforced service for five . Nor did there seem a prospect of these matrimonial labours soon terminating , for the following year Lady Denzell , to the extreme vexation of my father , as ...
... pleasant , became heavy and irksome , under an enforced service for five . Nor did there seem a prospect of these matrimonial labours soon terminating , for the following year Lady Denzell , to the extreme vexation of my father , as ...
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... pleasant laugh upon meeting her scrutinizing eye , then said , more seriously , - " Well , it will be but a short race , and a short fight , this time , after which I shall come home and triumphantly rest awhile on my laurels ( you see ...
... pleasant laugh upon meeting her scrutinizing eye , then said , more seriously , - " Well , it will be but a short race , and a short fight , this time , after which I shall come home and triumphantly rest awhile on my laurels ( you see ...
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... pleasant have come and gone with my girlhood's past , forgotten , unmarked , as though they had not been ; but this stands out still another of those little verdant islands on a boundless waste of waters . CHAPTER IV . EXTRACTS FROM ...
... pleasant have come and gone with my girlhood's past , forgotten , unmarked , as though they had not been ; but this stands out still another of those little verdant islands on a boundless waste of waters . CHAPTER IV . EXTRACTS FROM ...
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... pleasant pleasant shady seat , whereon we two damsels sat , doing some small matters in needle- work , the while Charles wandered hither and thither , or stopped and held converse with us as pleased him . Out of the common , silent and ...
... pleasant pleasant shady seat , whereon we two damsels sat , doing some small matters in needle- work , the while Charles wandered hither and thither , or stopped and held converse with us as pleased him . Out of the common , silent and ...
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... pleasant to see . The laughter and confusion of tongues exceeded all which had gone before ; and in good sooth there had been no lack throughout . " I declare this is fifty times jollier than if we had twenty flunkies to do it all for ...
... pleasant to see . The laughter and confusion of tongues exceeded all which had gone before ; and in good sooth there had been no lack throughout . " I declare this is fifty times jollier than if we had twenty flunkies to do it all for ...
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albeit amiable amused angry answer beautiful Beechley's better Bluebell Wood boostle brother Captain Bell character Charles Beechley Charley Charley's cheeks cheerful Cherrup child Coomb Hill countenance damsel daughter dear boy dear Sariann delightful distress Dora Bell Edith Ennis Denzell exclaimed expression eyes face fair lady father fear feelings felt forget friends gazing George Bell girl glancing grandmamma grave happy head heart honour interposed Jeffry Johnny Lady Denzell laughed look Lucy Bell mamma mammy manner Mardyke matter merry mind Miss Pitt Mistress Monica Monica Dormer mother never Oak Cliff opinion oriel window painful pale party picnic pleasant present question quoth rector Rectory rejoined replied Riversdale Court Robert Layton seemed silence sister smile soft eyes sorrow speaking spirit sure sweet tell temper thing thought tion tone Tootee tower of Babel Tursey voice window wish words young
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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.