Works, Volume 20Houghton Mifflin, 1923 |
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Page 60
... perhaps from dishonour worse than death . Receive him , Catharine , as thy true Valentine , and him whom I desire to see my affectionate son . ' ' Not thus father , ' replied Catharine . ' I can see per- can speak to no one now . I am бо.
... perhaps from dishonour worse than death . Receive him , Catharine , as thy true Valentine , and him whom I desire to see my affectionate son . ' ' Not thus father , ' replied Catharine . ' I can see per- can speak to no one now . I am бо.
Page 67
... perhaps un- just ; I will not be ungrateful , ' she said to herself , ' though I cannot yield to his suit . I will not wait till my father compels me to receive him as my Valentine for the year : I will seek him out , and choose him ...
... perhaps un- just ; I will not be ungrateful , ' she said to herself , ' though I cannot yield to his suit . I will not wait till my father compels me to receive him as my Valentine for the year : I will seek him out , and choose him ...
Page 69
... perhaps with less alarming vivacity , again seized the blushing maiden in his arms , who submitted with a tolerable grace to receive repayment of her salute , a dozen times repeated , and with an energy very different from that which ...
... perhaps with less alarming vivacity , again seized the blushing maiden in his arms , who submitted with a tolerable grace to receive repayment of her salute , a dozen times repeated , and with an energy very different from that which ...
Page 78
... Perhaps never , if such be my father's pleasure , ' con- tinued Conachar , with assumed indifference . ' I thought , ' said Simon Glover , rather seriously , ' that all this was to be laid aside , when at earnest intercession I took you ...
... Perhaps never , if such be my father's pleasure , ' con- tinued Conachar , with assumed indifference . ' I thought , ' said Simon Glover , rather seriously , ' that all this was to be laid aside , when at earnest intercession I took you ...
Page 88
... perhaps ? ' said Henry . ' I have marked his looks - ' ' You avail yourself of this painful situation to insult me , Henry , though I have little deserved it . Conachar is nothing to me , more than the trying to tame his wild spirit by ...
... perhaps ? ' said Henry . ' I have marked his looks - ' ' You avail yourself of this painful situation to insult me , Henry , though I have little deserved it . Conachar is nothing to me , more than the trying to tame his wild spirit by ...
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Page 203 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 111 - Have a care he does not hear you say so,' said the smith. 'I tell thee, bonnet-maker, that there is more danger in yonder slight wasted anatomy than in twenty stout fellows like yourself.
Page 304 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 49 - Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date. What want these outlaws conquerors should have? But History's purchased page to call them great? A wider space, an ornamented grave? Their hopes were not less warm, their souls were full as brave.
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