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... felt unwell . Nothing is more unpleasant than a sick headache when one is expected to be merry and talkative . " " Well , " said Mr. Good , " we must not loiter here any longer at all events , or we shall arrive at the fag end of the ...
... felt unwell . Nothing is more unpleasant than a sick headache when one is expected to be merry and talkative . " " Well , " said Mr. Good , " we must not loiter here any longer at all events , or we shall arrive at the fag end of the ...
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... felt a great drop fall on my face . " - " Alas ! my wife's bonnet ! " cried Mr. Good . " I laid her a wager it would be spoilt the first time she wore it . My dear , I sympathize with your feelings . Yes , the sky looks very threaten ...
... felt a great drop fall on my face . " - " Alas ! my wife's bonnet ! " cried Mr. Good . " I laid her a wager it would be spoilt the first time she wore it . My dear , I sympathize with your feelings . Yes , the sky looks very threaten ...
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... felt any thing particular in his before , and in the course of this afternoon , was once or twice rendered uncomfortable by it . Ro- sina was not wholly without dissatisfaction : Huntley found so much to say to every body , that no one ...
... felt any thing particular in his before , and in the course of this afternoon , was once or twice rendered uncomfortable by it . Ro- sina was not wholly without dissatisfaction : Huntley found so much to say to every body , that no one ...
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... felt elation and yet remorse at having refused Lewis ; afraid of its coming to the knowledge of her mother and sister , and of their reproaches . Come what might , she thought she could never suffer too much for Hunt- ley , and yet his ...
... felt elation and yet remorse at having refused Lewis ; afraid of its coming to the knowledge of her mother and sister , and of their reproaches . Come what might , she thought she could never suffer too much for Hunt- ley , and yet his ...
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... felt that however she might resent his charging her with coquetry , it was not undeserved . If she had been convinced from the first , that she could not return his affection , she ought to have avoided a thousand opportunities of which ...
... felt that however she might resent his charging her with coquetry , it was not undeserved . If she had been convinced from the first , that she could not return his affection , she ought to have avoided a thousand opportunities of which ...
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Page 124 - for whither thou goest, I will go; where thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried.' Exquisite Ruth!— If my Ruth, now, would say as much to me!— I have a great mind,
Page 108 - like me, for a season, thy years will have an end: thou shalt sleep in the clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 121 - Abused mortals ! did you know Where joy, heart's-ease^ and comforts grow, You'd scorn proud towers, And seek them in these bowers, Where winds sometimes
Page 165 - roughness; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he! An
Page 124 - can surpass the book of Ruth ?" exclaimed he. " I am glad the idea struck me of illustrating it! How exquisite is the feminine devotedness of this speech !—' Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; where thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried.
Page 121 - our woods may shake, But blustering care can never tempest make, Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us, Save of fountains that glide by us.
Page 3 - the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast.'
Page 17 - sit upon the ground and tell strange stories of the deaths of kings.
Page 16 - Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaven* To wash it white as snow?'
Page 214 - better come to you to ask whether or no to fetch Mr. Good, not liking to be the 'sponsible person myself." "What!" said Mrs. Wellford hastily, "do you mean that he is delirious ?" " Perhaps that may be the word, ma'am—what we call light-headed." " What can be done for this poor young man ?