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Page xii
... sort of obsession that will not permit him to rest so long as there remains the least small island of Jack's personality unexplored . His life in the forge , aboard the " Cydnus , " in the Eyssendeck factory , his degradation and ...
... sort of obsession that will not permit him to rest so long as there remains the least small island of Jack's personality unexplored . His life in the forge , aboard the " Cydnus , " in the Eyssendeck factory , his degradation and ...
Page xiv
... sort : " Take this ! and this ! " Jack is scarcely a novel in the strict sense of the word , rather a biography around which is woven a series of social and satiric studies , of pictures from life . Invention plays but a minor part in ...
... sort : " Take this ! and this ! " Jack is scarcely a novel in the strict sense of the word , rather a biography around which is woven a series of social and satiric studies , of pictures from life . Invention plays but a minor part in ...
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... all its delicate distinctions of form and language , not to have recognized in the mother of his new pupil a client of a peculiar sort . The unconcern with which she had entered his study , was too obtrusive to be genuine . Her 4 Jack .
... all its delicate distinctions of form and language , not to have recognized in the mother of his new pupil a client of a peculiar sort . The unconcern with which she had entered his study , was too obtrusive to be genuine . Her 4 Jack .
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... sort of servitude . After he had left the study , there was silence for a moment . The child's footsteps and his companion's , grating upon the gravel - walk , hard- ened by frost , sounded farther and farther away ; the crackling of ...
... sort of servitude . After he had left the study , there was silence for a moment . The child's footsteps and his companion's , grating upon the gravel - walk , hard- ened by frost , sounded farther and farther away ; the crackling of ...
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... sort . She went to and fro in the cham- ber , opening and closing closet - doors , with the fine unconcern born of experience , her manner seem- ing to say , " This will soon pass over . " And while performing her various duties , she ...
... sort . She went to and fro in the cham- ber , opening and closing closet - doors , with the fine unconcern born of experience , her manner seem- ing to say , " This will soon pass over . " And while performing her various duties , she ...
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Page 103 - DE L'ENFANT A SON RÉVEIL O père qu'adore mon père ! Toi qu'on ne nomme qu'à genoux! Toi, dont le nom terrible et doux Fait courber le front de ma mère! On dit que ce brillant soleil N'est qu'un jouet de ta puissance; Que sous tes pieds il se balance Comme une lampe de vermeil. On dit que c'est toi qui fais naître Les petits oiseaux dans les champs, Et qui...
Page xxiv - Did we think victory great ? So it is — but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great.
Page 285 - ... workman, is no longer what it used to be ; oh, no ! not at all the same thing, not at all. You must know that the time- of the working-man has now come. The middle classes have had their day, the aristocracy likewise. Although, I must say, the aristocracy- Moreover, is it not more natural at your age, to allow yourself to be guided by those who love you, and who are experienced ? " A sob from the child interrupted her. " Then you too send me away; you too send me away.