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Page ix
... hand with warm feeling , or rather with the emotion one ought to feel who had witnessed the risk he had just run of losing an angel . The lady seemed satisfied at leaving us together . " You are an Englishman ? " said the stranger ...
... hand with warm feeling , or rather with the emotion one ought to feel who had witnessed the risk he had just run of losing an angel . The lady seemed satisfied at leaving us together . " You are an Englishman ? " said the stranger ...
Page x
... hand . " Will you receive my card ? " " Most willingly . " He put " Viscount Householder " into my hand , and in return I gave him my own humble appellation . He looked from the card to me , and from me to the card , and some agreeable ...
... hand . " Will you receive my card ? " " Most willingly . " He put " Viscount Householder " into my hand , and in return I gave him my own humble appellation . He looked from the card to me , and from me to the card , and some agreeable ...
Page xi
... hand , and found me in good health , as I hope these few lines will have the same advantage with you . I have read the book , and must say there is some truth in it , which , I suppose , is as much as be- falls any book , the Bible ...
... hand , and found me in good health , as I hope these few lines will have the same advantage with you . I have read the book , and must say there is some truth in it , which , I suppose , is as much as be- falls any book , the Bible ...
Page 32
... hand , the quiet temperament of my mother required some more exciting cause than the affections of her husband , to quicken those germs of deep , placid , womanly love , that certainly lay dormant in her heart 32 THE MONIKINS . CHAPTER ...
... hand , the quiet temperament of my mother required some more exciting cause than the affections of her husband , to quicken those germs of deep , placid , womanly love , that certainly lay dormant in her heart 32 THE MONIKINS . CHAPTER ...
Page 33
... hand kindly , after a long and solemn pause ; " much more so than I had thought , or could have believed ! Does nurse give thee comforting soups and generous nourishment ? " My mother smiled the ghastly smile of death ; but waved her hand ...
... hand kindly , after a long and solemn pause ; " much more so than I had thought , or could have believed ! Does nurse give thee comforting soups and generous nourishment ? " My mother smiled the ghastly smile of death ; but waved her hand ...
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Page 327 - ... that he must have the attributes of a conscience, of which memory formed one of the most essential features. Conscience was defined to be " the faculty by which we judge of the goodness or wickedness of our own actions.