A Mummer's WifeThe story of the seduction, elopement and fate of a seamstress from the Potteries. |
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Page 82 - course we have to live ; but it depends how we live and what we live for—whether it be to indulge the desires of the flesh, the desire of the eye, or to regain the image of God, to have the design of God again planted in our souls. This is what
Page 303 - And in Kate's worst paroxysms there were all the symptoms of madness, for while she poured out her torrents of abuse she often foamed at the mouth, and she approached him with compressed lips and a virulent frown. Then she drew back her lips, especially the corners of the upper lip, and showed her teeth, aiming a vicious blow at him.
Page 201 - The ways were filled with Sunday strollers—mothers leading a tired child moved steadily forward ; a drunken man staggered over a heap of stones ; sweethearts chased each other ; occasionally a girl, kissed from behind as she stretched to reach a honeysuckle, rent with a scream the sickly-coloured, airless evening.
Page 29 - Then he came back with a light heart to his first and only love, who had never ceased to think of him, and lived with her happily forever afterwards. The grotesque mixture of prose and poetry, both equally false, used to enchant Kate, and she always fancied
Page 29 - never to be forgotten were passed under the trees by the river, he pleading his cause, and she refusing to leave poor Arthur—he was too good a fellow. Heartbroken, at last the squire gave up the pursuit, and went to foreign parts, where he waited thirty years until he heard Arthur was dead.
Page 333 - the whole contour of her head. The thick hair that used to encircle her pale prominent temples like rich velvet looked now like a black silk band frayed and whitened at
Page 104 - There's Mr. Lennox at the door ; he can't get in ; he's kicking up an awful row. Do go down and open for him." " Why don't you go yourself ? " she answered, starting up into a sitting position. " How am I to go ? You don't want me to catch my death at