Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... wishes for my present and eternal happiness was a bitter grief ever present to the pure mind of my grandmother , and cast a shadow , that dark- ened to intensity , her every pleasure as the time approached . Ah , how often is the lot ...
... wishes for my present and eternal happiness was a bitter grief ever present to the pure mind of my grandmother , and cast a shadow , that dark- ened to intensity , her every pleasure as the time approached . Ah , how often is the lot ...
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... wish you good - bye , grand- mamma , as I purpose setting off early to - mor- row morning for Oxford , " he exclaimed , in a kind voice , and addressing his old friend by the familiar term of endearment which , half seriously , 22 ...
... wish you good - bye , grand- mamma , as I purpose setting off early to - mor- row morning for Oxford , " he exclaimed , in a kind voice , and addressing his old friend by the familiar term of endearment which , half seriously , 22 ...
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... wish now , that I had never left my home to live in Scotland ! " But . mamma , " urged I , " why not tell her ? " 66 Oh , I could not bring myself to say any thing likely to distress poor mamma , she is so delicate . Besides , I was not ...
... wish now , that I had never left my home to live in Scotland ! " But . mamma , " urged I , " why not tell her ? " 66 Oh , I could not bring myself to say any thing likely to distress poor mamma , she is so delicate . Besides , I was not ...
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... wish to fête , feast , and honour him in every way , before this his final departure . He also , you know , must , in some measure , reciprocate these flattering civilities , and with such a complication of engagements for mind and body ...
... wish to fête , feast , and honour him in every way , before this his final departure . He also , you know , must , in some measure , reciprocate these flattering civilities , and with such a complication of engagements for mind and body ...
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... wish it were not , so bitterly dis- tressing to dear father and me is the inex- plicable alteration in poor Charles . Days have passed , and - thanks be to our heavenly Father for the same - Charles is be- coming more like his old self ...
... wish it were not , so bitterly dis- tressing to dear father and me is the inex- plicable alteration in poor Charles . Days have passed , and - thanks be to our heavenly Father for the same - Charles is be- coming more like his old self ...
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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.