Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... walks in the Park , which for the benefit of their health the girls ge- nerally took every morning before breakfast , that her opinion of his being her captive was ... walk he was desirous to take with her , but which , his great regard 19.
... walks in the Park , which for the benefit of their health the girls ge- nerally took every morning before breakfast , that her opinion of his being her captive was ... walk he was desirous to take with her , but which , his great regard 19.
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... walk , ( for of course she was to be her companion , as being her bosom friend , her other self ) rather a wearisome ... walks , she had no reason to believe that St. Aubyn knew there was such a person as herself in existence . But as ...
... walk , ( for of course she was to be her companion , as being her bosom friend , her other self ) rather a wearisome ... walks , she had no reason to believe that St. Aubyn knew there was such a person as herself in existence . But as ...
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... walk . Two or three other teachers were generally of the party ; but , on this morning , she had forgotten to enlist any one in the service , that she herself might be under the necessity of paying so much attention to the younger ones ...
... walk . Two or three other teachers were generally of the party ; but , on this morning , she had forgotten to enlist any one in the service , that she herself might be under the necessity of paying so much attention to the younger ones ...
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... walking towards them very fast ; and they were soon enabled to decide upon its being Captain Harvey and his friend St. Aubyn . But although Catherine was prepared for the probability of his being so accompa- nied , and had in the first ...
... walking towards them very fast ; and they were soon enabled to decide upon its being Captain Harvey and his friend St. Aubyn . But although Catherine was prepared for the probability of his being so accompa- nied , and had in the first ...
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... walk that for Augusta was nothing but the foolery of an hour , was to Catherine the beginning of destiny , the momentous interval in which every overwhelming passion of her soul awoke to life . They continued their ramble ; St. Aubyn ...
... walk that for Augusta was nothing but the foolery of an hour , was to Catherine the beginning of destiny , the momentous interval in which every overwhelming passion of her soul awoke to life . They continued their ramble ; St. Aubyn ...
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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.