Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... turning aside my flushed face . " You really seem to consider me even less than a child , -a mere baby . " 66 " Sweet pretty thing ! " he murmured , gazing at and apostrophizing the flower in tones of mock fondness and admiration , you ...
... turning aside my flushed face . " You really seem to consider me even less than a child , -a mere baby . " 66 " Sweet pretty thing ! " he murmured , gazing at and apostrophizing the flower in tones of mock fondness and admiration , you ...
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... turned off the tributary brook , dried up the bed of the moat , and planted it in every part with flowering shrubs and trees , which , nourished by the richest of soils , and sheltered on all sides , here grew and bloomed with almost ...
... turned off the tributary brook , dried up the bed of the moat , and planted it in every part with flowering shrubs and trees , which , nourished by the richest of soils , and sheltered on all sides , here grew and bloomed with almost ...
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... turned on his college life and its approach- ing termination . " I 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 ...
... turned on his college life and its approach- ing termination . " I 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 ...
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... turned out , I tarried on and on for many months , and anon for years . I had reached my seventeenth birthday when , to my great grief , my kind old grandfather died . His death was sudden ; and so terrible was the shock to his aged ...
... turned out , I tarried on and on for many months , and anon for years . I had reached my seventeenth birthday when , to my great grief , my kind old grandfather died . His death was sudden ; and so terrible was the shock to his aged ...
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... turned and cast him back ere entering the door . Anon he mounted the horse brought for him by his groom , and rode away . He came the next day - aye , came at mid- day -- but he never saw her again . Ah me ! that sparkling , lovely ...
... turned and cast him back ere entering the door . Anon he mounted the horse brought for him by his groom , and rode away . He came the next day - aye , came at mid- day -- but he never saw her again . Ah me ! that sparkling , lovely ...
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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.