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Page 99
... Reuben Otley , whose manufacturing pre- mises were in the rear of their houses , which adjoined each other , and looked out upon one of the narrowest , ugliest , dreariest streets in all Walton Minster . The partners were both bachelors ...
... Reuben Otley , whose manufacturing pre- mises were in the rear of their houses , which adjoined each other , and looked out upon one of the narrowest , ugliest , dreariest streets in all Walton Minster . The partners were both bachelors ...
Page 102
... Reuben Otley , as might be expected from a man who ornamented his apprentices ' room with trite moral sentences , was a person harsh and stern in aspect and in practice a rigid disciplinarian . He was not so much disliked as he was ...
... Reuben Otley , as might be expected from a man who ornamented his apprentices ' room with trite moral sentences , was a person harsh and stern in aspect and in practice a rigid disciplinarian . He was not so much disliked as he was ...
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... Reuben Otley understood well the science of government , and im- pressed those under him with an assurance that the slightest breach of discipline , truth , or honesty , would draw down upon the delinquent the fullest weight of his ...
... Reuben Otley understood well the science of government , and im- pressed those under him with an assurance that the slightest breach of discipline , truth , or honesty , would draw down upon the delinquent the fullest weight of his ...
Page 108
... Reuben Otley was daily on the look - out for an opportunity of superseding him and giving him a retiring pen- sion . Aldin had discovered this , and it was a rare amusement to the bystanders to watch the cunning game of fence that was ...
... Reuben Otley was daily on the look - out for an opportunity of superseding him and giving him a retiring pen- sion . Aldin had discovered this , and it was a rare amusement to the bystanders to watch the cunning game of fence that was ...
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... Reuben Otley sought his partner with a vexed , mysterious face , say- ing- " Hawthorne , there is something going wrong ; we have got a thief amongst us , or I am very much mistaken . " " Indeed ! I am sorry to hear that . Whom do you ...
... Reuben Otley sought his partner with a vexed , mysterious face , say- ing- " Hawthorne , there is something going wrong ; we have got a thief amongst us , or I am very much mistaken . " " Indeed ! I am sorry to hear that . Whom do you ...
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Page 1 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 211 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 3 - I remember the gleams and glooms that dart Across the school-boy's brain ; The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain. And the voice of that fitful song Sings on, and is never still : "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 251 - THERE is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow ; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow. There cherries grow that none may buy, Till ' cherry-ripe
Page 211 - All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.