Checkmate, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1871 |
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... hall ? Just at this moment Lady May's carriage drove down the avenue and past him . Yes , she had run up direct to her room on bidding Lady May good night . How he drank in these rosy lights through his dark eyes ! and how their tremble ...
... hall ? Just at this moment Lady May's carriage drove down the avenue and past him . Yes , she had run up direct to her room on bidding Lady May good night . How he drank in these rosy lights through his dark eyes ! and how their tremble ...
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... Hall at three o'clock . But it was past six before he could disentangle himself from the tenacious meshes of his business . Never had he thought it so irksome . Was he not rich enough — too rich ? Why should he longer submit to a ...
... Hall at three o'clock . But it was past six before he could disentangle himself from the tenacious meshes of his business . Never had he thought it so irksome . Was he not rich enough — too rich ? Why should he longer submit to a ...
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... Hall itself . There are fancies , as well as likings and lovings . Where there is a real worship , how- ever cautiously masked - and Mr. Longcluse was by no means so - it is never a mystery to a clever girl . And such adoration ...
... Hall itself . There are fancies , as well as likings and lovings . Where there is a real worship , how- ever cautiously masked - and Mr. Longcluse was by no means so - it is never a mystery to a clever girl . And such adoration ...
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... hall , where he stood , taking his letters from the hall - porter . “ How d'ye do , again ? I shan't detain you a minute . I have had a long talk with your father about business , " said Longcluse , seizing the topic most likely to ...
... hall , where he stood , taking his letters from the hall - porter . “ How d'ye do , again ? I shan't detain you a minute . I have had a long talk with your father about business , " said Longcluse , seizing the topic most likely to ...
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... hall - door of the pretty Elizabethan house . Carriages of all sorts were discernible under the branches , assembled at the further side , to the right of the hall - door , over the wide steps of which was spread a scarlet cloth ...
... hall - door of the pretty Elizabethan house . Carriages of all sorts were discernible under the branches , assembled at the further side , to the right of the hall - door , over the wide steps of which was spread a scarlet cloth ...
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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.
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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,