Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... girl , about fifteen . " Miss Mathews told me yesterday that she was get- ting quite too much for her ; and upon my word I think so too . " " Dear aunt , " exclaimed Catherine , whilst her fa- ther was studying for a reply , which , in ...
... girl , about fifteen . " Miss Mathews told me yesterday that she was get- ting quite too much for her ; and upon my word I think so too . " " Dear aunt , " exclaimed Catherine , whilst her fa- ther was studying for a reply , which , in ...
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... girl of your age ( for you are now in your sixteenth year , ) — I say it is a very sad , and a very shocking thing , to find you so insensible to what ought to be the conduct and manners of a young woman of rank and fashion . " " Why ...
... girl of your age ( for you are now in your sixteenth year , ) — I say it is a very sad , and a very shocking thing , to find you so insensible to what ought to be the conduct and manners of a young woman of rank and fashion . " " Why ...
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... girl to provide for , considerably increased his regret . Added to greater misfortunes , he was much disappointed that the expected child had not been a son , whose future fate , during the time he had been looking for his ap- pearance ...
... girl to provide for , considerably increased his regret . Added to greater misfortunes , he was much disappointed that the expected child had not been a son , whose future fate , during the time he had been looking for his ap- pearance ...
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... girl like Catherine ; -always , as the poor child had remarked , teazing her about tri- fles , such as wearing her hat and gloves when she went out of the house , holding up her head , & c . & c .; to all of which minutiæ she attached ...
... girl like Catherine ; -always , as the poor child had remarked , teazing her about tri- fles , such as wearing her hat and gloves when she went out of the house , holding up her head , & c . & c .; to all of which minutiæ she attached ...
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... that she was the sweetest girl in the world ; " and Catherine , on her part , returning to the best of her power , in a proportionate degree , all this weight of love and approbation with which she was honoured 15 CHAPTER II. ...
... that she was the sweetest girl in the world ; " and Catherine , on her part , returning to the best of her power , in a proportionate degree , all this weight of love and approbation with which she was honoured 15 CHAPTER II. ...
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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.