Mrs. Juliet, Volume 1Chatto & Windus, 1892 |
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... box , railway - rug , and umbrella , which were piled up by the door of the hall . So do I , sometimes , ' said a dutiful little VOL . I. 1 wife , who had done much to achieve the feat CHAPTER PAGE THE DIVINE PARTHENESSA.
... box , railway - rug , and umbrella , which were piled up by the door of the hall . So do I , sometimes , ' said a dutiful little VOL . I. 1 wife , who had done much to achieve the feat CHAPTER PAGE THE DIVINE PARTHENESSA.
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... door ; the luggage was being put in . ' Good - bye , ' she said . the great wide world , ' You are going into away from me . Be careful . Steel your heart : you are so tender- hearted ! ' ' I tender - hearted ! Surely not more than I ...
... door ; the luggage was being put in . ' Good - bye , ' she said . the great wide world , ' You are going into away from me . Be careful . Steel your heart : you are so tender- hearted ! ' ' I tender - hearted ! Surely not more than I ...
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... door by which the girl was to enter . Candles were burning on burning on a table by the bedside . Juliet opened the door , put her pretty head into the room , and said , ' Clements says you want me , aunt . Is there anything that I can ...
... door by which the girl was to enter . Candles were burning on burning on a table by the bedside . Juliet opened the door , put her pretty head into the room , and said , ' Clements says you want me , aunt . Is there anything that I can ...
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... door , and hoped to be able to escape going farther into the Mrs. Cradock at once detected this , room . and exclaimed in a harsh voice : ' Oh , so far as I am concerned , you are wel- come to stay by the door if you like , so long as ...
... door , and hoped to be able to escape going farther into the Mrs. Cradock at once detected this , room . and exclaimed in a harsh voice : ' Oh , so far as I am concerned , you are wel- come to stay by the door if you like , so long as ...
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... door : it was better to go , no good could be done by staying - Mrs . Cradock was in much too unreasonable a frame of mind for that — and yet it seemed so unkind to leave her thus . Say you forgive me , aunt , ' she pleaded ; ' I will ...
... door : it was better to go , no good could be done by staying - Mrs . Cradock was in much too unreasonable a frame of mind for that — and yet it seemed so unkind to leave her thus . Say you forgive me , aunt , ' she pleaded ; ' I will ...
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Page 1 - Latimer must have walked erect; and in which Hooker, in his young days, possibly flaunted in a vein of no discommendable vanity. In the depth of college shades, or in his lonely chamber, the poor student shrunk from observation. He found shelter among books, which insult not ; and studies, that ask no questions of a youth's finances.
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Page 183 - Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or, what is worse, be left by it ? Why dost thou load thyself, when thou'rt to fly, Oh man, ordain'd to die ? Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie ? Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas ! is sowing thee.
Page 256 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Page 200 - Dishonesty (of seeming and not being) in all manner of Rulers, and appointed Watchers, spiritual and temporal, must there not, through long ages, have gone on accumulating! It will accumulate: moreover, it will reach a head; for the first of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever.
Page 277 - Give full stretch to your imagination, says a writer who had witnessed what he describes, —think of everything that is cruel, inhuman, infernal, and you cannot then conceive anything so diabolical as what these demons in human form have perpetrated.
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