Woman's a Riddle, Or Baby Warmstrey1874 |
Common terms and phrases
answered asked baronet bedroom behaviour believe blackguard blunderbuss called Captain Tavener Carey Celestine chair character Cissy Cliff Cottage cold cousin cried daughter dead doctor door doubt down-stairs drawing-room exclaimed excuse eyes face fancy fear feel felt footman French maid fret Gervase's give gone hand happy hear heard heart honour hope husband India indolent JOHN SAUNDERS Katherine kind knew Lady Warm Lady Warmstrey ladyship laugh leave letter looked mamma marriage married mind Miss Rudd mother nature never night pain pale passed passion pathy Philip replied resolution Rockcliff RUSSELL GRAY sands seemed servants silence Sir Ger Sir Gervase smile soft eyes sorrow speak spoke stood strey strong sure sweet talk tears tell thought tion told truth Tunbridge turned voice walk Warmstrey Hall Warmstrey's whilst whisper wife wish woman wonder words
Popular passages
Page 276 - Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes ; There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast, Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
Page 294 - Thy heart—thy heart!—I wake and sigh, And sleep to dream till day, Of the truth that gold can never buy— Of the baubles that it may.
Page 236 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment
Page 294 - Tis midnight, but small thoughts have I of sleep ; Full seldom may my friends such vigils keep
Page 20 - I have seen enough to convince me what kind of man he is. The fate of us poor women is hard : we all wish for husbands, and they are the torment of our