Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 17
Page 11
... angrily . " And please remember I am not a child ; I shall be twelve years old the fifteenth of this month : you don't call that a child , I should think ? " " Oh , of course not , " with continued CHARLES BEECHLEY . 11.
... angrily . " And please remember I am not a child ; I shall be twelve years old the fifteenth of this month : you don't call that a child , I should think ? " " Oh , of course not , " with continued CHARLES BEECHLEY . 11.
Page 24
... Remember , my dear boy , ' the race is not always to the swift , nor the battle to the strong ; moreover , I do not think you such a pillar of strength as you thus unreflect- ingly consider yourself . " He laughed his light , pleasant ...
... Remember , my dear boy , ' the race is not always to the swift , nor the battle to the strong ; moreover , I do not think you such a pillar of strength as you thus unreflect- ingly consider yourself . " He laughed his light , pleasant ...
Page 27
... remember I have written a diary — a brief , crude account of divers events in my every - day life ; some are of great , some of small importance , as the case may be . My mother was the only child of a Scotch clergyman living in one of ...
... remember I have written a diary — a brief , crude account of divers events in my every - day life ; some are of great , some of small importance , as the case may be . My mother was the only child of a Scotch clergyman living in one of ...
Page 39
... Remembering that Mrs. Irskin had said Thursday was one of his reception - days for patients in his own house , I accordingly put off my governess with the excuse I was going to pay a visit , and should be absent till late , and , saying ...
... Remembering that Mrs. Irskin had said Thursday was one of his reception - days for patients in his own house , I accordingly put off my governess with the excuse I was going to pay a visit , and should be absent till late , and , saying ...
Page 54
... remembers no more the darksome sepulchre o'er which they are blooming . Presently steps came along the gravel path , and anon a winsome face , the glittering golden . curls falling back like a veil around a head surmounted 54 RIVERSDALE ...
... remembers no more the darksome sepulchre o'er which they are blooming . Presently steps came along the gravel path , and anon a winsome face , the glittering golden . curls falling back like a veil around a head surmounted 54 RIVERSDALE ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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.