Checkmate, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1871 |
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... face grew dark . " Two doors in life - only in this life , if all bishops and curates speak truth - one or other shut for ever in the next . The gate to heaven , the gate to hell . Heaven ! Facilis decensus . Life is such a sophism ...
... face grew dark . " Two doors in life - only in this life , if all bishops and curates speak truth - one or other shut for ever in the next . The gate to heaven , the gate to hell . Heaven ! Facilis decensus . Life is such a sophism ...
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... face beside him which had begun to haunt him so oddly . The strange smile of his mysterious companion , the cold tone that jarred sweetly , somehow , on his ear , lend- ing a sinister eccentricity to the extraordinary confession he was ...
... face beside him which had begun to haunt him so oddly . The strange smile of his mysterious companion , the cold tone that jarred sweetly , somehow , on his ear , lend- ing a sinister eccentricity to the extraordinary confession he was ...
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... face to face with an un- exceptionable witness present , and to discover distinctly whether he acts from fraud or delu- sion , and then to proceed accordingly . communicated with him . " " Oh , really ! " I have " Yes , I was clear I ...
... face to face with an un- exceptionable witness present , and to discover distinctly whether he acts from fraud or delu- sion , and then to proceed accordingly . communicated with him . " " Oh , really ! " I have " Yes , I was clear I ...
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... his teeth . Did it look like treachery ? or was it defiance , or derision ? It was a face , thus seen , so cadaverous and Mephistophelian , that an artist would have given something for a minute to fix a note of 18 CHECKMATE .
... his teeth . Did it look like treachery ? or was it defiance , or derision ? It was a face , thus seen , so cadaverous and Mephistophelian , that an artist would have given something for a minute to fix a note of 18 CHECKMATE .
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... face betrayed no sign of agitation , as the shuffling tread of a heavy foot was heard on the door- steps , followed by a faint knock , like that of a tremulous postman . It was the preconcerted summons of Mr. Paul Davies . Longcluse ...
... face betrayed no sign of agitation , as the shuffling tread of a heavy foot was heard on the door- steps , followed by a faint knock , like that of a tremulous postman . It was the preconcerted summons of Mr. Paul Davies . Longcluse ...
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Page 173 - The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 100 - Ah! well-a-day ! "Brightest hopes are fleetest." I the wedding ring had got, Wedding clothes provided ; Sure the church would bind a knot, Ne'er to be divided ; Married we straight must be ; She her vows had plighted ; Vows, alas ! as frail as glass ; All my hopes are blighted. Maidens, wavering and untrue, Many a heart have broken ; Sweetest lips the world e'er knew, Falsest words have spoken.
Page 118 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 11 - To this he never yielded for an instant. Alas, in this age numbers of men are setting up to be their own inspired writers. I have been told that every man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client...
Page 100 - Once I loved a maiden fair, But she did deceive me : She with Venus might compare In my mind, believe me : She was young, and among All our maids the sweetest : Now I say " Ah ! well-a-day ! " Brightest hopes are fleetest.
Page 320 - Kevenge does make me happy : well for some people if it didn't. Except for those I love or those I hate, I live for none. The rest live for me. I owe them no more than I do this rotten stick. Let them rot and fatten my land ; let them burn and bake my bread.
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Page 165 - Alone again. Not a soul in human shape to disclose my wounds to, not a soul.
Page 162 - She seemed to have something on her mind, and not to know how to begin. At length, after some little conversation, which flagged once or twice — " I have been thinking, Mr. Lougcluse, I must have appeared very stupid,