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Page 40
... learned in the nursery still crept across his pure lips ; but now the fair , chiseled lineaments were blotted by dissipation , and blackened and distorted by the baleful fires of a fierce , passionate nature , and a restless , powerful ...
... learned in the nursery still crept across his pure lips ; but now the fair , chiseled lineaments were blotted by dissipation , and blackened and distorted by the baleful fires of a fierce , passionate nature , and a restless , powerful ...
Page 48
... learned to recognize the hasty , heavy tread of the dreaded master of the house , she invariably fled from the sound of his steps as she would have shunned an ogre ; consequently her knowledge of him was limited to the brief inspection ...
... learned to recognize the hasty , heavy tread of the dreaded master of the house , she invariably fled from the sound of his steps as she would have shunned an ogre ; consequently her knowledge of him was limited to the brief inspection ...
Page 70
... learned ; a woman whose fingers are more frequently adorned with ink - spots than thimble ; who holds housekeep- ing in detestation , and talks loudly about politics , science , and philosophy ; who is ugly , and learned , and cross ...
... learned ; a woman whose fingers are more frequently adorned with ink - spots than thimble ; who holds housekeep- ing in detestation , and talks loudly about politics , science , and philosophy ; who is ugly , and learned , and cross ...
Page 71
... learned , twenty are more tiresome still because they know nothing . I will ob- tain all the books you need , and hereafter you must come to me every morning at nine o'clock . When the weather is good , you can easily walk over from Mrs ...
... learned , twenty are more tiresome still because they know nothing . I will ob- tain all the books you need , and hereafter you must come to me every morning at nine o'clock . When the weather is good , you can easily walk over from Mrs ...
Page 76
... learned discussion on the superiority of the wines of the Levant over those of Germany , quoting triumphantly the lines of M. de Nevers : 66 Sur la membrane de leur sens , Font des sillons charmans . " When the ladies withdrew to the ...
... learned discussion on the superiority of the wines of the Levant over those of Germany , quoting triumphantly the lines of M. de Nevers : 66 Sur la membrane de leur sens , Font des sillons charmans . " When the ladies withdrew to the ...
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