The English Fireside: A Tale of the Past, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1844 |
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... blanched cheek and ashy lip , supporting her weeping sister , as if waking from some dream of shud- dering import . " It was a wonderful escape , sir , " said an old fisherman , the proprietor of the net . " I little expected to see ye ...
... blanched cheek and ashy lip , supporting her weeping sister , as if waking from some dream of shud- dering import . " It was a wonderful escape , sir , " said an old fisherman , the proprietor of the net . " I little expected to see ye ...
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... and speak plainly . " " I will , father , " replied Charles ; and then , after a short pause , he continued . " You do not seem to have observed a grow- ing intimacy of late between me and Blanch Sinclair ? 38 THE ENGLISH FIRESIDE .
... and speak plainly . " " I will , father , " replied Charles ; and then , after a short pause , he continued . " You do not seem to have observed a grow- ing intimacy of late between me and Blanch Sinclair ? 38 THE ENGLISH FIRESIDE .
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A Tale of the Past John Mills. ing intimacy of late between me and Blanch Sinclair ? " " Growing ! " exclaimed the squire . " Egad , sir ! I thought years since it must have reached its height . For some fifteen have ye known each other ...
A Tale of the Past John Mills. ing intimacy of late between me and Blanch Sinclair ? " " Growing ! " exclaimed the squire . " Egad , sir ! I thought years since it must have reached its height . For some fifteen have ye known each other ...
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... Blanch for your wife . I should say , at a rough guess , the rent - roll of the Woodland estate was little less than ten thousand a year . " " And ours , " replied Charles , " not so many pence . " " Not so many fractions of that coin ...
... Blanch for your wife . I should say , at a rough guess , the rent - roll of the Woodland estate was little less than ten thousand a year . " " And ours , " replied Charles , " not so many pence . " " Not so many fractions of that coin ...
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... Blanch , although I never , directly or indirectly , expressed such thought or desire . If the event was to come off , I , at least , determined to have no hand in it . Now that there seems to be no reason for my withholding what I have ...
... Blanch , although I never , directly or indirectly , expressed such thought or desire . If the event was to come off , I , at least , determined to have no hand in it . Now that there seems to be no reason for my withholding what I have ...
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Page 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 257 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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Page 160 - Kidlywink's progress in his work, the ratcatcher rose softly from his seat, and, unobserved, crept towards a heap of old iron in a dark corner of the shop.