Mrs. Juliet, Volume 1Chatto & Windus, 1892 |
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... start for India in the morning . ' ' Aylesbury ! ' cried Mr. Gerard ; ' I once knew a clergyman of that name who had a living in the North Riding . He afterwards went out to Australia as Bishop . He was the THE DIVINE PARTHENESSA II.
... start for India in the morning . ' ' Aylesbury ! ' cried Mr. Gerard ; ' I once knew a clergyman of that name who had a living in the North Riding . He afterwards went out to Australia as Bishop . He was the THE DIVINE PARTHENESSA II.
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... knew what he was saying . ' Indeed it is nothing will ever induce me to marry anyone who has not . ' He looked up the table and down the table , in the hope that a slight break would cause a change in the conversation . Miss Juliet was ...
... knew what he was saying . ' Indeed it is nothing will ever induce me to marry anyone who has not . ' He looked up the table and down the table , in the hope that a slight break would cause a change in the conversation . Miss Juliet was ...
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... knew that they owed their pleasant home , their large circle of friends , their place in the world , and all that they had , to Mr. Cradock's steady generosity when Mr. Freeman was a young man . ' I have good news for you , dear Mr ...
... knew that they owed their pleasant home , their large circle of friends , their place in the world , and all that they had , to Mr. Cradock's steady generosity when Mr. Freeman was a young man . ' I have good news for you , dear Mr ...
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... knew that my not going to college meant the loss of the living that had been promised me , and was in fact ruin . He offered me half the money bequeathed to him by his father , and said that what was sufficient for him if he went to ...
... knew that my not going to college meant the loss of the living that had been promised me , and was in fact ruin . He offered me half the money bequeathed to him by his father , and said that what was sufficient for him if he went to ...
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... knew perfectly . She had been five - and - twenty years with Mrs. Cradock , and had kept her place by agreeing to everything she could agree to , and everything she couldn't , besides . This did not prevent her from taking her own way ...
... knew perfectly . She had been five - and - twenty years with Mrs. Cradock , and had kept her place by agreeing to everything she could agree to , and everything she couldn't , besides . This did not prevent her from taking her own way ...
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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.
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Page 58 - ... may, relying on the grace of God and the support of all my brother-Congressmen. This fact cannot however diminish, it rather deepens, the gratitude which I feel to you for the signal honour you have conferred upon me in electing me your President at this juncture. Words fail me to express what I feel. I thank you for it from the bottom of my heart. You will agree with me when I say that no predecessor of mine ever stood in need of greater indulgence and more unstinted support from the Congress...