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... to a less happy fate . " Well , " said Drumcarro , " now ye've spoken , Kirsteen , ye've made no secret of your feelings ; and , so far as I can judge , he has just as fine an opinion of you . And if you give your atten- tion 2 Kirsteen .
... to a less happy fate . " Well , " said Drumcarro , " now ye've spoken , Kirsteen , ye've made no secret of your feelings ; and , so far as I can judge , he has just as fine an opinion of you . And if you give your atten- tion 2 Kirsteen .
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... feeling of pleased superiority . Coming home from the ball - it was perhaps the best part of it , after all . When they were drawing near the house their father made a speech to them which Kir- steen at least listened to without alarm ...
... feeling of pleased superiority . Coming home from the ball - it was perhaps the best part of it , after all . When they were drawing near the house their father made a speech to them which Kir- steen at least listened to without alarm ...
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... feeling with her foot if the stones were steady before she let him trust his weight to them . It had been quite natural to come out to the door to see him mount and ride away , to stroke and pat the shining well - groomed horse , who ...
... feeling with her foot if the stones were steady before she let him trust his weight to them . It had been quite natural to come out to the door to see him mount and ride away , to stroke and pat the shining well - groomed horse , who ...
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... G'away to your mother , and tell her it's to be soon , in a month or so , to get done with it - for I've made up my mind . " Kirsteen stood silent for a moment , not daunted but bewildered , feeling with a force which 12 Kirsteen .
... G'away to your mother , and tell her it's to be soon , in a month or so , to get done with it - for I've made up my mind . " Kirsteen stood silent for a moment , not daunted but bewildered , feeling with a force which 12 Kirsteen .
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... feeling the spray on her fore- head and the roar of the water in her ears as a sort of relief from herself . Her feelings had been like to burst her heart and her brain together as she flew along , like some struggling things shut up in ...
... feeling the spray on her fore- head and the roar of the water in her ears as a sort of relief from herself . Her feelings had been like to burst her heart and her brain together as she flew along , like some struggling things shut up in ...
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Page 449 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 108 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 182 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best...
Page 89 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, ' To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 126 - Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt: They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod, On the hilt and the haft of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of God. The Colonel's son he rides the mare and Kamal's boy the dun, And two have come back to Fort Bukloh where there went forth but one. And when they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full twenty swords flew clear — There was not a man but carried his feud with the blood of the mountaineer. "Ha
Page 126 - If there should follow a thousand swords to carry my bones away, Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay. They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain, The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain. But if thou thinkest the price be fair, — thy brethren wait to sup.
Page 126 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat ; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho...
Page 203 - We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. We twa hae paidl't i' the burn, From mornin sun till dine ; But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. And here's a hand, my trusty fiere, And gie's a hand o' thine ; And we'll tak a right guid willie-waught, For auld lang syne.
Page 126 - who leads a troop of the Guides, 'And thou must ride at his left side as shield on shoulder rides. 'Till Death or I cut loose the tie, at camp and board and bed, 'Thy life is his — thy fate it is to guard him with thy head. 'So, thou must eat the White Queen's meat, and all her foes are thine, 'And thou must harry thy father's hold for the peace of the Border-line. 'And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power — 'Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur!
Page 183 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...