Village Belles: A Novel, Volume 1Harper, 1833 |
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... Hinckleys at Hundleford , and very pretty girls they are , I assure you . There was one playing the harp . The old lady seemed at first rather dissatisfied at the master's not going over himself , but I explained how that was , so then ...
... Hinckleys at Hundleford , and very pretty girls they are , I assure you . There was one playing the harp . The old lady seemed at first rather dissatisfied at the master's not going over himself , but I explained how that was , so then ...
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... Hinckleys . " " Was it indeed ! " Matthew had now exhausted his " agreeable nothings , " so he walked off . After tea , Lady Worral made up her card - table , and the young people gathered before the open window , which look- ed out on ...
... Hinckleys . " " Was it indeed ! " Matthew had now exhausted his " agreeable nothings , " so he walked off . After tea , Lady Worral made up her card - table , and the young people gathered before the open window , which look- ed out on ...
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... Hinckleys of Hundleford , then . I suppose one of them is going to be married . " 66 " You girls must always be thinking of weddings , " said Matthew . Oh , you are quite out . It is nothing so serious as matrimony . Mrs. Shivers has ...
... Hinckleys of Hundleford , then . I suppose one of them is going to be married . " 66 " You girls must always be thinking of weddings , " said Matthew . Oh , you are quite out . It is nothing so serious as matrimony . Mrs. Shivers has ...
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... Hinckleys ? " 66 Oh , I only know them from seeing the young men and women ride about on horseback . They are very ... Hinckley's . There are two yew - trees in the garden , one 1 representing a peacock , the other a dragon . 126 VILLAGE ...
... Hinckleys ? " 66 Oh , I only know them from seeing the young men and women ride about on horseback . They are very ... Hinckley's . There are two yew - trees in the garden , one 1 representing a peacock , the other a dragon . 126 VILLAGE ...
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... Hinckleys of Hun- dleford . They found the family at home , and yet not at home - that is to say , they were ... Hinckley was plain , and the younger sisters were affected . There was a kind of showiness about them , however , which ...
... Hinckleys of Hun- dleford . They found the family at home , and yet not at home - that is to say , they were ... Hinckley was plain , and the younger sisters were affected . There was a kind of showiness about them , however , which ...
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Page 27 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 55 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 196 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 105 - Happiness is the natural design of all the world ; and everything we see done, is meant in order to attain it. My imagination places it in friendship, by friendship I mean an entire communication of thoughts, wishes, interests, and pleasures, being undivided ; a mutual esteem, which naturally carries with it a pleasing sweetness of conversation, and terminates in the desire of making one or another happy...
Page 103 - But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That, so bedecked, ornate, and gay, Comes this way, sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving...
Page 147 - What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 194 - Where joy, heart's-ease, and comforts grow, You'd scorn proud towers, And seek them in these bowers, Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shake, But blustering care could never tempest make ; Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us, Saving of fountains that glide by us.
Page 109 - ... There is a quiet after the abandoning of pursuits, something like the rest that follows a laborious day. I tell you this for your comfort. It was formerly a terrifying view to me, that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. Those are only unhappy who will not be contented with what she gives, but strive to break through her laws, by affecting a perpetuity of youth, which appears to me as little desirable at present as the babies do to...
Page 105 - Besides, you can give me something in return," and, turning to Pauline, " Will you be so kind as to give me a glass of water ? No, nothing else, a glass of cold water ; I am dying of thirst." "And I," said Bettina, laughing, while Pauline ran to fetch the water, " I am dying of something else — of hunger, to tell the truth. Monsieur le Cure — I know that I am going to be dreadfully intrusive ; I see your cloth is laid...
Page 44 - Behold the picture ! Is it like ? Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...