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Page 183
... Madame Merle . " She made this last announcement as if she were referring to a person of tolerably distinct identity . For Isabel , however , it represented but little ; she could only continue to feel that Madame Merle had a charm- ing ...
... Madame Merle . " She made this last announcement as if she were referring to a person of tolerably distinct identity . For Isabel , however , it represented but little ; she could only continue to feel that Madame Merle had a charm- ing ...
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... Madame Merle was the last to appear . Before she came , Isabel spoke of her to Ralph , who was standing before the fireplace . 66 Pray who is Madame Merle ? " " The cleverest woman I know , not excepting yourself , " said Ralph . " I ...
... Madame Merle was the last to appear . Before she came , Isabel spoke of her to Ralph , who was standing before the fireplace . 66 Pray who is Madame Merle ? " " The cleverest woman I know , not excepting yourself , " said Ralph . " I ...
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... Madame Merle were thrown much together during the illness of their host , and if they had not become inti- mate , it would have been almost a breach of good manners . Their man- ners were of the best ; but in addition to this they ...
... Madame Merle were thrown much together during the illness of their host , and if they had not become inti- mate , it would have been almost a breach of good manners . Their man- ners were of the best ; but in addition to this they ...
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... Madame Merle's great talent , her most perfect gift . Life had told upon her ; she had felt it strongly , and it was part of the satisfaction that Isabel found in her society that when the girl talked of what she was pleased to call ...
... Madame Merle's great talent , her most perfect gift . Life had told upon her ; she had felt it strongly , and it was part of the satisfaction that Isabel found in her society that when the girl talked of what she was pleased to call ...
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... Madame Merle , smiling still , but with a mock gravity , as if she were telling a child a secret . " What a wonderful thing ! " " A great many people give me the impression of never having felt any- thing very much , " Isabel answered ...
... Madame Merle , smiling still , but with a mock gravity , as if she were telling a child a secret . " What a wonderful thing ! " " A great many people give me the impression of never having felt any- thing very much , " Isabel answered ...
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Page 364 - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize ; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Page 230 - Revenge with a swarthier alien crew, And away she sail'd with her loss and long'd for her own ; When a wind from the lands they had ruin'd awoke from sleep, And the water began to heave and the weather to moan, And or ever that evening ended a great gale blew, And a wave like the wave that is raised by an earthquake grew, Till it smote on their hulls and their sails and their masts and their flags, And the whole sea plunged and fell on the shot-shatter'd navy of Spain, And the little Revenge herself...
Page 197 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm; so help me God.
Page 232 - We should be seen, my dear; they would spy us out of the town. The loud black nights for us, and the storm rushing over the down, When I cannot see my own hand, but am led by the creak of the chain, And grovel and grope for my son till I find myself drenched with the rain.
Page 232 - And if he be lost — but to save my soul, that is all your desire — Do you think that I care for my soul if my boy be gone to the fire? I have been with God in the...
Page 365 - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Page 362 - the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength.
Page 203 - God ; and in Public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments I will use the Form in ' the said Book prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered by lawful
Page 203 - War, but who were unwilling, because unable, to give their unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer.
Page 230 - Valour of delicate women who tended the hospital bed, Horror of women in travail among the dying and dead, Grief for our perishing children, and never a moment for grief, Toil and ineffable weariness, faltering hopes of relief...