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afraid ANNE BRONTË answer asked beautiful Bellingham Bessy better Bradshaw brother called CHARLOTTE BRONTË child Cranworth creature crying dear Denbigh Donne door Duchess de Longueville Eccleston eyes face Faith Farquhar father Fauriel feeling felt friends Gaskell gave girl give glad gone hand happy hear heard heart Jemima Jenny Jerry Dixon kind Klephts knew lady leave Leonard looked Madame de Sablé Mary Mason mind Miss Benson morning mother never night once papa parlour PATRICK BRONTË perhaps poor pretty quiet remember Richard Bradshaw round Ruth Ruth's Sally seemed silent sister smile sorrow Southport speak spoke stood sure SYLVIA'S LOVERS talk tears tell thank things thought Thurstan told tone took turned uncon voice walk watch weary wish woman wonder words young
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Page 158 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Page 70 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 335 - Why, father?" replied she, in an opposition that was strange even to herself, but which was prompted by the sullen passion which seethed below the stagnant surface of her life, and which sought a vent in defiance. She maintained her ground, facing round upon her father, and Ruth — Ruth, who had risen, and stood trembling, shaking, a lightning-fear having shown her the precipice on which she stood. It was of no use; no quiet, innocent life — no profound silence, even to her own heart as to the...
Page 142 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad hearts! without reproach or blot, Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power!
Page 162 - hiding her guilty front with innocent snow," when a little baby was laid by the side of the pale white mother. It was a boy; beforehand she had wished for a girl, as being less likely to feel the want of a father — as being what a mother, worse than widowed, could most effectually shelter. But now she did not think or remember this. What it was, she would not have exchanged for a wilderness of girls. It was her own, her darling, her individual baby, already, though not an hour old, separate and...
Page 455 - And I said unto him ; Sir thou knowest. And he said to me ; These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 277 - Euth ! and, for the first time for several years, he wondered what had become of her ; though, of course, there was but one thing that could have happened, and perhaps it was as well he did not know her end, for most likely it would have made him very uncomfortable.
Page 120 - Faith, Faith ! let me beg of you not to speak so of the little innocent babe, who may be God's messenger to lead her back to Him. Think again of her first words — the burst of nature from her heart ! Did she not turn to God, and enter into a covenant with Him — ' I will be so good?' Why, it draws her out of herself ! If her life has hitherto been self-seeking, and wickedly thoughtless, here is the very instrument to make her forget herself, and be thoughtful for another. Teach her (and God will...