Quite Alone: In Three Volumes, Volumen1Chapman and Hall, 1864 |
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... back parlour to brood over his speech at the next vestry , or Board of Guardians meeting ; or if another , the worst of all , shut himself up to grumble over his books and hard times , and scold his wife and children , and curse because ...
... back parlour to brood over his speech at the next vestry , or Board of Guardians meeting ; or if another , the worst of all , shut himself up to grumble over his books and hard times , and scold his wife and children , and curse because ...
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... back parlour at Rhododendron House , combined the gravity of a cabinet council with the hilarity of a symposium . CHAPTER V. THE BUNNYCASTLES IN COUNCIL . THE back parlour 72 122 Quite Alone .
... back parlour at Rhododendron House , combined the gravity of a cabinet council with the hilarity of a symposium . CHAPTER V. THE BUNNYCASTLES IN COUNCIL . THE back parlour 72 122 Quite Alone .
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... back parlour was — well , what shall I say ? —poky . A pair of folding - doors took up very nearly one of its sides , and these gave ad- mittance to the front parlour , or drawing - room The Bunnycaftles in Council . 73 CHAPTER V THE ...
... back parlour was — well , what shall I say ? —poky . A pair of folding - doors took up very nearly one of its sides , and these gave ad- mittance to the front parlour , or drawing - room The Bunnycaftles in Council . 73 CHAPTER V THE ...
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... back parlour was essentially their keeping and sitting chamber - their bower and their home . The late Mr. Bunnycastle's portrait hung on one side of the modest pier - glass on the mantel , and an effigy - a very vile one - in crayons ...
... back parlour was essentially their keeping and sitting chamber - their bower and their home . The late Mr. Bunnycastle's portrait hung on one side of the modest pier - glass on the mantel , and an effigy - a very vile one - in crayons ...
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... back parlour . He had as small an appetite - or , in his discretion , chose to be as abstemious - as the Bunnycastles themselves ; and so , after he had consumed a very thin slice of the grinning mutton , and sipped a very small ...
... back parlour . He had as small an appetite - or , in his discretion , chose to be as abstemious - as the Bunnycastles themselves ; and so , after he had consumed a very thin slice of the grinning mutton , and sipped a very small ...
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Adelaide asked Avignon back parlour Bath bun beautiful bell Berkeley Beugleuse Boulevard theatres Bunny CALIFORNIA LIBRARY castle Celia child Chiswick cried dandy daughter Debonnair diamond discreet Dooced door Drax dressed eyes face fellow Fibbs five-and-thirty boarders Francis Blunt Gamridge's garden gentleman Griffin Blunt hair half hand head honour horses Hôtel Rataplan hundred Hyde Park J. B. Constant Jagg Jean Baptiste Constant Jermyn knew Lily Lily's little girl looked Lord Madame Hummelhausen Marouille ment Miss Adelaide Miss Barbara Miss Bunnycastles Miss Dallwallah Miss Floris mon homme Monsieur Constant morning murmured never night Nurse Pigott once papa Paris Porte St pretty pupils remarked replied Rhododendron House round schoolmistress schoolroom sister smile strange lady supper Tallboys tell temper thing thousand francs tion told took turned UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Valérie Valérie's valet wife woman young ladies
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Página 7 - ; or what the EarthSpirit in Faust names it, the living visible Garment of God: — In Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean; A seizing and giving The fire of Living: 'T is thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by.
Página 128 - Hélas ! soudain tristement il s'écrie : « C'est un drapeau que je ne connais pas. Ah! si jamais vous vengez la patrie, Dieu, mes enfants, vous donne un beau trépas...
Página 6 - All is here — the prologue, the drama, the epilogue; for here is Life. Life from the highest to the lowest rung of the ladder ; not only in earliest youth and extreme old age, in comely virtue and ruddled vice, in wisdom and folly, complacency and discontent ; but — look yonder, far beyond the outer fringe — in utter want and misery. There, under the trees, the ragged woman opens her bundle, and distributes among her callous brood the foul scraps she has begged at area gates, or picked from...
Página 68 - Mars, or from the bowels of the earth, and had said, " It is true that I am a returned convict, a professed forger and coiner, and a monster in human form — that I have a blighted heart and a seared conscience — that I murdered my...
Página 28 - Another lappel to the coat, another curl to the coiffure, another whiff of perfume about him, and the dandy would have been spoiled. As it was, he was as perfect as a man could be with three...
Página 67 - When such hopes were hinted in her presence by the charitableminded among her own sex — the married ladies, bien entendu — Barbara shrugged her pretty shoulders — she was pretty — and sometimes smiled, and sometimes sighed.
Página 127 - Madame, who was a meek brown little woman, usually habited in a chintz bedjacket and a petticoat of blue serge...
Página 115 - Lane, and the patents taken away therefrom, and from Covent Garden too ; commutation of tithes and reform of municipal corporations, charity commissions and the new Poor-law, chartism, trades-unionism and the unknown tongues ; oceans of pamphlets ; new clubs starting up all over the...
Página 57 - Nurse Pigott had purchased .a bar of Castile soap, the which, from its curiously marbled appearance, the child imagined to be sweetstuff, and essayed to suck.
Página 49 - He spoke less in anger than in the languid tone of an Indian Begum telling her slave-girl that really, if she gave her any more trouble, she would be compelled to have her buried alive.