Young Hearts: A Novel by a Recluse. With a Preface by Miss Jane Porter, Volume 1Saunders and Otley, 1834 |
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... Mary might have composed fifty grave essays on a china plate during the time of dinner , for nothing else seemed for a moment to have power to engage her atten- tion . The cloth removed , she as quickly transferred her devotion to a ...
... Mary might have composed fifty grave essays on a china plate during the time of dinner , for nothing else seemed for a moment to have power to engage her atten- tion . The cloth removed , she as quickly transferred her devotion to a ...
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... Mary . She was not my first love , but that's nothing after all ; what I was going to observe is , that , dear to me as you have been from childhood , you young madcap ! if you continue to remind me so much of old times with that ...
... Mary . She was not my first love , but that's nothing after all ; what I was going to observe is , that , dear to me as you have been from childhood , you young madcap ! if you continue to remind me so much of old times with that ...
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... Mary and yourself smiling before him ! Come hither , my darling , " he conti nued , turning fondly to his daughter , " come and kiss thy father . " Mary flew into his extended arms : placing her on his knee , he parted the chesnut ring ...
... Mary and yourself smiling before him ! Come hither , my darling , " he conti nued , turning fondly to his daughter , " come and kiss thy father . " Mary flew into his extended arms : placing her on his knee , he parted the chesnut ring ...
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... Mary might be plotting some mis- chief , she is so silent . I shouldn't at all won- der , Hal , if it isn't against you . Whenever any extraordinary wicked prank is in agitation , my little witch is always as gentle as a lamb- as meekly ...
... Mary might be plotting some mis- chief , she is so silent . I shouldn't at all won- der , Hal , if it isn't against you . Whenever any extraordinary wicked prank is in agitation , my little witch is always as gentle as a lamb- as meekly ...
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... Mary's ungovernable glee , my house may be taken by passers - by , unacquainted with its owner , for a mad - house , and myself , perhaps , for one of the keepers . " " Delightful ! " exclaimed young Mordaunt ; " this is better than ...
... Mary's ungovernable glee , my house may be taken by passers - by , unacquainted with its owner , for a mad - house , and myself , perhaps , for one of the keepers . " " Delightful ! " exclaimed young Mordaunt ; " this is better than ...
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Page viii - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page vii - Intreat me not to leave thee. Whither thou goest, I will •go : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there be buried. Death alone shall part thee and me.
Page iii - WHO IN THE WORLD, IS NOT OF THIS WORLD; TO THE WOMAN OF TASTE, AND THE CHRISTIAN MATROX: THIS WORK iS DEDICATED, BY THE RESPECT, AND STILL DEEPER SENTIMENT OF THE AUTHOR.
Page 161 - He would have had the opportunity of beholding some of the most beautiful women in the world, and if he...