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... sure that they love me and one another , and him above all , my father and theirs , the dearest friend of their childhood , the noble gentleman who bred them from their infancy in the practice and knowledge of Truth , and Love and Honor ...
... sure that they love me and one another , and him above all , my father and theirs , the dearest friend of their childhood , the noble gentleman who bred them from their infancy in the practice and knowledge of Truth , and Love and Honor ...
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... sure enough , my lady , " says Mrs. Worksop , the housekeeper ( an old tyrant whom Henry Esmond plagued more than he hated ) , and the old gentlewoman looked significantly towards the late lord's picture , as it now is in the family ...
... sure enough , my lady , " says Mrs. Worksop , the housekeeper ( an old tyrant whom Henry Esmond plagued more than he hated ) , and the old gentlewoman looked significantly towards the late lord's picture , as it now is in the family ...
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... sure , a feast was got ready , and guns were fired , and tenants and domestics huzzahed when his carriage approached and rolled into the court - yard of the Hall ) , no one ever took any notice of young Henry Esmond , who sat unobserved ...
... sure , a feast was got ready , and guns were fired , and tenants and domestics huzzahed when his carriage approached and rolled into the court - yard of the Hall ) , no one ever took any notice of young Henry Esmond , who sat unobserved ...
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... sure took his uncle's priest for a director . This charitable father reconciled him with the old lord , his uncle , who a short time before would not speak to him , as Tom passed under my lord's coach window , his lordship going in ...
... sure took his uncle's priest for a director . This charitable father reconciled him with the old lord , his uncle , who a short time before would not speak to him , as Tom passed under my lord's coach window , his lordship going in ...
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... sure as I'm a magistrate of this county I'll commit you ! " The fellow shrank back , and my lord retreated with all the honors of the day . But when the little flurry caused by the scene was over , and the flush passed off his face , he ...
... sure as I'm a magistrate of this county I'll commit you ! " The fellow shrank back , and my lord retreated with all the honors of the day . But when the little flurry caused by the scene was over , and the flush passed off his face , he ...
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Page 207 - Our duke was as calm at the mouth of the cannon, as at the door of a drawingroom. Perhaps he could not have been the great man he was, had he had a heart either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or regret, or remorse. He achieved the highest deed of daring, or deepest calculation of thought, as he performed the very meanest action of which a man is capable ; told a lie, or cheated a fond woman, or robbed a poor beggar of a half-penny with a like awful serenity and equal capacity of the highest...
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Page 193 - ... inflame him ; to make him even forget ; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him ; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
Page 208 - ... yet those of the army, who knew him best and had suffered most from him, admired him most of all: and as he rode along the lines to battle or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion reeling from before the enemy's charge or shot, the fainting men and officers got new courage as they saw the splendid calm of his face, and felt that his will made them irresistible.
Page 207 - His qualities were pretty well known in the army, where there were parties of all politics, and of plenty of shrewdness and wit; but there existed such a perfect confidence in him, as the first captain of the world, and such a faith and admiration in his prodigious genius and fortune, that the very men whom he notoriously cheated of their pay, the chiefs whom he used and...
Page 246 - Lord's as the heaven is ; we are alike his creatures here aud yonder. I took a little flower off the hillock and kissed it, and went my way, like the bird that had just lighted on the cross by me, back into the world again. Silent receptacle of death ; tranquil depth of calm, Out of reach of tempest and trouble ! I felt as one who had been walking below the sea, and treading amidst the bones of shipwrecks.