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... LOVERS FAMILY RELICS AN OLD SOLDIER CONTENTS . THE WIDOW'S RETINUE READY - MONEY JACK BACHELORS WIVES STORY - TELLING THE STOUT GENTLEMAN FOREST TREES · A LITERARY ANTIQUARY HORSEMANSHIP THE FARM - HOUSE LOVE SYMPTOMS · FALCONRY HAWKING ...
... LOVERS FAMILY RELICS AN OLD SOLDIER CONTENTS . THE WIDOW'S RETINUE READY - MONEY JACK BACHELORS WIVES STORY - TELLING THE STOUT GENTLEMAN FOREST TREES · A LITERARY ANTIQUARY HORSEMANSHIP THE FARM - HOUSE LOVE SYMPTOMS · FALCONRY HAWKING ...
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... LOVERS ' TROUBLES THE HISTORIAN THE HAUNTED HOUSE DOLPH HEYLIGER THE STORM - SHIP THE WEDDING THE AUTHOR'S FAREWELL . PAGE 299 305 311 315 322 326 332 • 341 354 357 387 395 406 415 420 427 430 • 435 487 524 536 THE AUTHOR . ORTHY READER ...
... LOVERS ' TROUBLES THE HISTORIAN THE HAUNTED HOUSE DOLPH HEYLIGER THE STORM - SHIP THE WEDDING THE AUTHOR'S FAREWELL . PAGE 299 305 311 315 322 326 332 • 341 354 357 387 395 406 415 420 427 430 • 435 487 524 536 THE AUTHOR . ORTHY READER ...
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... LOVERS FAMILY RELICS AN OLD SOLDIER READY - MONEY JACK BACHELORS WIVES STORY - TELLING 39 44 51 THE WIDOW'S RETINUE 56 61 69 74 82 THE STOUT GENTLEMAN FOREST TREES A LITERARY ANTIQUARY THE FARM - HOUSE HORSEMANSHIP .84 99 • 107 114 ...
... LOVERS FAMILY RELICS AN OLD SOLDIER READY - MONEY JACK BACHELORS WIVES STORY - TELLING 39 44 51 THE WIDOW'S RETINUE 56 61 69 74 82 THE STOUT GENTLEMAN FOREST TREES A LITERARY ANTIQUARY THE FARM - HOUSE HORSEMANSHIP .84 99 • 107 114 ...
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... MISFORTUNES 415 LOVERS ' TROUBLES 420 THE HISTORIAN 427 THE HAUNTED HOUSE 430 DOLPH HEYLIGER 435 THE STORM - SHIP 487 THE WEDDING 524 THE AUTHOR'S FAREWELL . 536 THE AUTHOR . ORTHY READER : On again taking pen. vi CONTENTS .
... MISFORTUNES 415 LOVERS ' TROUBLES 420 THE HISTORIAN 427 THE HAUNTED HOUSE 430 DOLPH HEYLIGER 435 THE STORM - SHIP 487 THE WEDDING 524 THE AUTHOR'S FAREWELL . 536 THE AUTHOR . ORTHY READER : On again taking pen. vi CONTENTS .
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... lover , towards whom she showed dis- tinguished favor ; and a line of the old servants , who had collected in the Hall , bowed most pro- foundly as she passed . I observed that Master Simon was most assid- uous and devout in his ...
... lover , towards whom she showed dis- tinguished favor ; and a line of the old servants , who had collected in the Hall , bowed most pro- foundly as she passed . I observed that Master Simon was most assid- uous and devout in his ...
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Page 31 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 136 - And thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 46 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys, Why, soldiers, why ? Whose business 'tis to die...
Page 94 - ... hearing a traveller of poetical temperament expressing the kind of horror which he felt on beholding, on the banks of the Missouri, an oak of prodigious size, which had been, in a manner, overpowered by an enormous wild grapevine. The vine had clasped its huge folds round the trunk, and thence had wound about every branch and twig, until the mighty tree had withered in its embrace.
Page 78 - I sauntered to the window, and stood gazing at the people, picking their way to church, with petticoats hoisted mid-leg high, and dripping umbrellas. The bell ceased to toll, and the streets became silent. I then amused myself with watching the daughters of a tradesman opposite, who being confined to the house for fear of wetting their Sunday finery, played off their charms at the front windows, to fascinate the chance tenants of the Inn.
Page 77 - ... cock, drenched out of all life and spirit; his drooping tail matted, as it were, into a single feather, along which the water trickled from his back; near the cart was a half-dozing cow, chewing the cud, and standing patiently to be rained on, with wreaths of vapor rising from her reeking hide; a wall-eyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves; an unhappy cur, chained to a doghouse hard by, uttered...
Page 466 - ... the Hudson. A gun was brought to bear on her, and, with some difficulty, loaded and fired by Hans Van Pelt, the garrison not being expert in artillery. The shot seemed absolutely to pass through the ship, and to skip along the water on the other side, but no notice was taken of it! What was strange, she had all her sails set, and sailed right against wind and tide, which were both down the river. Upon this Hans Van Pelt, who was likewise...
Page 76 - I know of nothing more calculated to make a man sick of this world than a stable-yard on a rainy day. The place was littered with wet straw that had been kicked about by travellers and stable-boys.
Page 403 - The poor soul sat singing by a sycamore tree, Sing all a green willow ; Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing willow, willow, willow : Sing all a green willow must be my garland.
Page 76 - I was still feverish, and was obliged to keep within doors all day, in an inn of the small town of Derby. A wet Sunday in a country inn ! whoever has had the luck to experience one, can alone judge of my situation. The rain pattered against the casements ; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound. I went to the...