The wife's trials, Volume 21855 |
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admiration arranged Ashley asked beautiful began Bridgend bright eyes butcher's wife called Caroline Cecilia Charles Stacey cheerful Colonel Templeton consent Constance daughter Dawson dear Helen dear mamma diplo duties eyes face fancied father fear feel felt Forest Hill Forrester girl give glad graceful Grantham Gretchen Hall hand handsome happy hear heard heart Hermitage honour hope Hubert husband Italy Juliet kind knew Lady Dallas Ladyship lately Laurette learned leave letter look look and smile Lord Hurst Lord Hurstwood Lordship marriage marry means melan Miss Templeton Morton mother Naples never noble papa pathy perhaps pleasure poor pretty Priory promise racter Reginald remarked replied scarcely Seabrooke seemed shew silent sister smile soon sorrow Stacey Stöpsel sure sweet tain tell thing thought tion to-morrow told truth turn Turner Vernon Victor voice wife wish young
Popular passages
Page 179 - It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 219 - Lucy. Why how now, Madam Flirt? If you thus must chatter; And are for flinging Dirt, Let's try who best can spatter ; Madam Flirt!
Page 194 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ! One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And oh ! if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this...
Page 40 - But you are no such man: you are rather point device in your accoutrements, as loving yourself, than seeming the lover of any other.
Page 1 - ... bounds of decency which the former are too apt to transgress, and which the latter never know. Courts are unquestionably the seats of GOOD-BREEDING, and must necessarily be so; otherwise they would be the seats of violence and desolation.
Page 83 - His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride, When they have slain her lover?
Page 226 - What oracle this darkness can evince ! Sometimes a fisher's son, sometimes a prince. It is a secret, great as is...
Page 320 - There was an old woman tossed up in a blanket seventy times as high as the moon.
Page 312 - And here we go backwards and forwards, And here we go round, round, roundy.