Jack, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1900 - 409 pages |
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... heart and soul , into the story of Jack ! What is the quality of qualities obvious even to the most superficial reader of Jack ? Note the remorseless subtlety of perception , the ironic delicacy of touch with which De Mora's portrait is ...
... heart and soul , into the story of Jack ! What is the quality of qualities obvious even to the most superficial reader of Jack ? Note the remorseless subtlety of perception , the ironic delicacy of touch with which De Mora's portrait is ...
Page xxvii
... heart and conscience , dimly and dumbly stirring within her , accuse and convict her , the murderess of her son . He too might accuse her . He does not . - And when she cries " Dead ? " " No , no , " an- swers the old doctor sternly ...
... heart and conscience , dimly and dumbly stirring within her , accuse and convict her , the murderess of her son . He too might accuse her . He does not . - And when she cries " Dead ? " " No , no , " an- swers the old doctor sternly ...
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... heart he cursed Lord Peambock and all the Indian army , to whom he was indebted for his absurd costume . Physically he resembled his mother , but with something finer , more striking in the face , that transformation the features of a ...
... heart he cursed Lord Peambock and all the Indian army , to whom he was indebted for his absurd costume . Physically he resembled his mother , but with something finer , more striking in the face , that transformation the features of a ...
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... heart : " Poor child , poor child ! " Some one pitied him , then ! And why ? Often he recalled the words in after days . The Director had not been mistaken . Madame la Comtesse de Barancy was only a sham - countess . Her name was not de ...
... heart : " Poor child , poor child ! " Some one pitied him , then ! And why ? Often he recalled the words in after days . The Director had not been mistaken . Madame la Comtesse de Barancy was only a sham - countess . Her name was not de ...
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... heart . " " An elegant , private brougham awaited her , at the entrance of the institution . She sprang into it with her child , and had only strength enough left to cry " Home ! in a firm voice , that was heard by a group of priests ...
... heart . " " An elegant , private brougham awaited her , at the entrance of the institution . She sprang into it with her child , and had only strength enough left to cry " Home ! in a firm voice , that was heard by a group of priests ...
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appearance asked Avenue Montaigne beautiful Bélisaire beûh Bon ami Boulevard Haussmann carriage Cécile Champs-Élysées Charlotte charming cold Countess creature d'Argenton Dahomey Daudet dear Decostère delightful doctor door dream entered Étiolles eyes face factotum felt forest garden glance Guérigny Gymnase Moronval hand happy head heard Hirsch Jack's Kérika King of Dahomey Labassindre light listened little Jack little King little negro little tropicals looked Madame de Barancy Madame Moronval Mademoiselle Constant Mâdou mamma Monsieur Moronval Monsieur Rivals Moronval-Decostère Moronval's Mother Archambauld Moucié mulatto Nantais never night Paris passed paused poet Pointe-à-Pitre poor child pupils road Roudic Saïd seated seemed sight silence singer sleep smile solemn sort sound suddenly talk tears tell terrible things thought tion trees Vaugirard Villeneuve-Saint-Georges voice wait walk watching wife woman words wretched
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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...