Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... side and increasing indignation on the other . I - Ennis Denzell - was the offended damsel ; the time , one month previous to the knowledge of my mother's death ; and my companion was Charles Beechley , the rector's only son . In age he ...
... side and increasing indignation on the other . I - Ennis Denzell - was the offended damsel ; the time , one month previous to the knowledge of my mother's death ; and my companion was Charles Beechley , the rector's only son . In age he ...
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... side by a broad belt of trees and shrubbery , while on the other stretched away , far as the eye could see , a suc- cession of velvety lawns and smooth gravel walks , interspersed by thick plantations of evergreens and flowering shrubs ...
... side by a broad belt of trees and shrubbery , while on the other stretched away , far as the eye could see , a suc- cession of velvety lawns and smooth gravel walks , interspersed by thick plantations of evergreens and flowering shrubs ...
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... melancholy , thoughtful mood which had so suddenly clouded his cheer- fulness , left me , and by a side gate entered the road leading to the Rectory . CHAPTER III . THE ORIEL DRAWING - ROOM . THE 18 RIVERSDALE COURT .
... melancholy , thoughtful mood which had so suddenly clouded his cheer- fulness , left me , and by a side gate entered the road leading to the Rectory . CHAPTER III . THE ORIEL DRAWING - ROOM . THE 18 RIVERSDALE COURT .
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... side and out at another . To this moat my grandfather , then living , but in extremely delicate health , con- ived a dislike , believing - and no doubt with good reason that to the chill malaria arising at night 20 RIVERSDALE COURT .
... side and out at another . To this moat my grandfather , then living , but in extremely delicate health , con- ived a dislike , believing - and no doubt with good reason that to the chill malaria arising at night 20 RIVERSDALE COURT .
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... sides , here grew and bloomed with almost Oriental luxu- riance and beauty ; while the stream , deprived of its noxious power , was made to do duty innocently by filling the aforesaid lake , which , too far off to be injurious to health ...
... sides , here grew and bloomed with almost Oriental luxu- riance and beauty ; while the stream , deprived of its noxious power , was made to do duty innocently by filling the aforesaid lake , which , too far off to be injurious to health ...
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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.