Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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Page 17
... attention than it had ever occurred to her to bestow upon them before . Augusta Belmont talked of nothing else . Mrs. Vernon , in reproving any misdemeanour , al- ways suggested the possibility of its interfering with the prospect of an ...
... attention than it had ever occurred to her to bestow upon them before . Augusta Belmont talked of nothing else . Mrs. Vernon , in reproving any misdemeanour , al- ways suggested the possibility of its interfering with the prospect of an ...
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... attention they excite , she had no difficulty in persuading herself that St. Au- byn not only did not admire Miss Belmont , but that he admired somebody else . This opinion , however , she had the discretion to keep to herself , till 20.
... attention they excite , she had no difficulty in persuading herself that St. Au- byn not only did not admire Miss Belmont , but that he admired somebody else . This opinion , however , she had the discretion to keep to herself , till 20.
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... attention to the younger ones , as not to be aware of the occasional wanderings on the part of the elder . In this state of things , Augusta and Cathe- rine had no difficulty , in the abstraction into which persons conversing on any ...
... attention to the younger ones , as not to be aware of the occasional wanderings on the part of the elder . In this state of things , Augusta and Cathe- rine had no difficulty , in the abstraction into which persons conversing on any ...
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... attention had been fixed upon me , as he might have thought I wished him to follow me ; and I should not have liked him to have thought that , you know . But he was looking over music at the piano- forte , and never saw me , and so I ...
... attention had been fixed upon me , as he might have thought I wished him to follow me ; and I should not have liked him to have thought that , you know . But he was looking over music at the piano- forte , and never saw me , and so I ...
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... attention of any man , or that I am not a dangerous person , she has not only never opposed the familiarity of intercourse into which we have fallen , but has contributed to increase it , by consti- tuting me in some sort the instructor ...
... attention of any man , or that I am not a dangerous person , she has not only never opposed the familiarity of intercourse into which we have fallen , but has contributed to increase it , by consti- tuting me in some sort the instructor ...
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Page 31 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight...
Page 50 - And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information amongst the rest, that -'Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proofs of Holy Writ.
Page 39 - But I'll do my best a gude wife to be, For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me.
Page 107 - Not in the strong wind that brake the rocks in pieces, not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in the still small voice that followed, the Lord made himself known.
Page 93 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 48 - It was by this sort of discipline that the heart and affections of a being, whose every nerve "turned at the touch of joy or woe, and turning trembled too...
Page 97 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden: But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulation — He had often read these lines, he said; but never tasted them before.