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... aunt throughout the time , as Captain Worthing- ton , when in the West Indies , had taken a fancy to a small estate ... aunt's return , which came at last . After our first meeting was over and we bad time to look at each other , she ...
... aunt throughout the time , as Captain Worthing- ton , when in the West Indies , had taken a fancy to a small estate ... aunt's return , which came at last . After our first meeting was over and we bad time to look at each other , she ...
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... aunt's eyes rested upon her with pleased admiration ; and no wonder , -she had such magnificent brown eyes , with that rich , warm colouring which bespeaks intense • vitality . Her figure was tall , well - shaped , and graceful , while ...
... aunt's eyes rested upon her with pleased admiration ; and no wonder , -she had such magnificent brown eyes , with that rich , warm colouring which bespeaks intense • vitality . Her figure was tall , well - shaped , and graceful , while ...
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... aunt , I thought , looked a little bit afraid of him . He received us with a cold , shy sort of kindness , as if he did not quite know what to make of two grown - up young ladies to whom he was an utter stranger , and yet with whom he ...
... aunt , I thought , looked a little bit afraid of him . He received us with a cold , shy sort of kindness , as if he did not quite know what to make of two grown - up young ladies to whom he was an utter stranger , and yet with whom he ...
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... aunt and Dolly ; for my uncle , feeling he had , as he expressed it , " got into port again , " began unpacking an amount of old clothes that would have astonished even an adver- tiser for the same . In one of these suits , the debris ...
... aunt and Dolly ; for my uncle , feeling he had , as he expressed it , " got into port again , " began unpacking an amount of old clothes that would have astonished even an adver- tiser for the same . In one of these suits , the debris ...
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... Aunt Jane , but I can never stand all his whims and oddities . I shall marry the first man that asks me . " " And be a greater goose than I take you for , " I interrupted . " People often tumble from the frying - pan into the fire who ...
... Aunt Jane , but I can never stand all his whims and oddities . I shall marry the first man that asks me . " " And be a greater goose than I take you for , " I interrupted . " People often tumble from the frying - pan into the fire who ...
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Página 544 - How soft the music of those village bells,' Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
Página 631 - AND on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old...
Página 107 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 292 - Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Página 492 - I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last. I shall sit down now ; but the time will come when you will hear me.
Página 540 - In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens. Like every other employment too, it is subdivided into a great number of different branches...
Página 373 - At school, friendship is a passion. It entrances the being; it tears the soul. All loves of after-life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness; no bliss so absorbing, no pangs of jealousy or despair so crushing and so keen! What tenderness and what devotion; what illimitable confidence; infinite revelations of inmost thoughts; what ecstatic present and romantic future; what bitter estrangements...
Página 345 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Página 543 - The elementary group is the Family, connected by common subjection to the highest male ascendant. The aggregation of Families forms the Gens or House. The aggregation of Houses makes the Tribe. The aggregation of Tribes constitutes the Commonwealth.
Página 592 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.