 Oh, no, simple reader ! but because at her home in the glen there was but one parlour — there, from morning till bedtime, sat her father — there, of course, must sit her mother ; and Miss Ruthven's charms, like those of other conjurers, depended for...  The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America - Page 137by Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 944 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1835 - 1074 pages
...picturesque, and most ambitious christening of this new world. Helen Ruthven did not affect this scrambling u thorough bush, thorough brier," through streamlet,...hundred times he was on the point of offering THE L1MWOOD8. the devotion of his life to her, when the image of his long-loved Bessie Lee rose before... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1836 - 612 pages
...love of nature. Oh, no, simple reader! but because at her home in the glen there was but one parlor ; there, from morning till bedtime, sat her father ;...Ruthven's charms, like those of other conjurers, depended tor their success on being exercised within a magic circle, within which no observer might come. She... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...love of nature. Oh, no, simple reader! but because at her home in the glen there was but one parlor ; there, from morning till bedtime, sat her father ; there of course must sit her mother; VOL. XLJJ. — NO. 90. 23 and Miss Ruthven' s charms, like those of other conjurers, depended for their... | |
 | 1844 - 668 pages
...of ''ire. Oh, no, simple reader! but because at itr home in the glen there was but one parloar — there, from morning till bedtime, sat her father — there, of course, must sit her mother ; and Miss Rnthven's charms, like those of other conjurers, depended for their success on being exercised within... | |
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