The Price She Paid: A NovelJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1882 - 429 sidor |
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... Peyton , " cried Phillis . 66 Why didn't you come into the world with a fine - sounding appellation , Denis Bourke ? " " Maurice Peyton ! " he repeated . A wasp just then settled on a knot of flowers Georgia wore at her throat , and she ...
... Peyton , " cried Phillis . 66 Why didn't you come into the world with a fine - sounding appellation , Denis Bourke ? " " Maurice Peyton ! " he repeated . A wasp just then settled on a knot of flowers Georgia wore at her throat , and she ...
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... Peyton , in a friendly , interested fashion , which Georgia liked . Phillis listened almost in silence to the conversation ; and Georgia was struck anew by a peculiarity of the odd young woman which she had often noticed . Though a ...
... Peyton , in a friendly , interested fashion , which Georgia liked . Phillis listened almost in silence to the conversation ; and Georgia was struck anew by a peculiarity of the odd young woman which she had often noticed . Though a ...
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... Peyton , that Cinderella burst into that impromptu overture ? You are very welcome , to be sure , - -or you will be to your sister in - doors : the milk - pans , not the boarders , live here in the spring - house . " " I beg your pardon ...
... Peyton , that Cinderella burst into that impromptu overture ? You are very welcome , to be sure , - -or you will be to your sister in - doors : the milk - pans , not the boarders , live here in the spring - house . " " I beg your pardon ...
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... Peyton , partly from a wish to lessen her girlish confusion , but more because he was desirous to estab- lish himself as quickly as possible on grounds of familiar acquaintance with this pretty creature . " Oh , I shall be sure to ; I'm ...
... Peyton , partly from a wish to lessen her girlish confusion , but more because he was desirous to estab- lish himself as quickly as possible on grounds of familiar acquaintance with this pretty creature . " Oh , I shall be sure to ; I'm ...
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... Peyton that a little show of brotherly haste to meet his sister might be found becoming . He had positively forgotten everything and everybody in the pleasure of watching this graceful girl and listening to the soft , musical voice ...
... Peyton that a little show of brotherly haste to meet his sister might be found becoming . He had positively forgotten everything and everybody in the pleasure of watching this graceful girl and listening to the soft , musical voice ...
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admiration ain't appeared asked began believe better Bourke's house brother called Caruthers Caruthers's Cinders creature cried Aunt Conyngham cried Georgia cried Phillis dear Denis Bourke Don Quixote door dream exclaimed eyes face fancy fear feel felt Georgia Grosvenor girl give glad glance gone Good-morning grandma hand head hear heard heart heerd hope hurried hurt idea instant Joe Grimshaw knew lady laugh looked marry Maurice's mean mind Miss French Miss Georgia Miss Grosvenor Miss Phillis Miss Raines morning Mozier Nest never night Patrick perceived person Peyton Phil Phillis French Phillis's poor portunity pretty reached regard replied Phillis returned Georgia roused seemed Sibyl Mayford smile speak stood stop suppose sure talk tell thank thing thought to-morrow told tone trouble trying turned uttered veranda voice Wachuset wait walked widow wish woman wonder words young
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Sida 49 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Sida 155 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Sida 319 - SYMPOSIUM. I AM afraid it was a poet, and a true one, who once wrote, Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is — Lord, forgive us ! — cinders, ashes, dust. But between the hut and the palace there are many kinds of dwelling-houses — Agar's Buildings, as I once heard a house-agent term them, ' because Agar's prayer, you know, was for neither riches nor poverty, and these lots are for your middle-class people : ' in these, rather than in the two...
Sida 309 - Interfere no further between thy sister and thy parents, unless thou preferest that reata to gold. Thy craft cannot outwit mine, and she will read no notes. Thou art a foolish boy to set thy sense against thy mother's. I may seem harsh to my children, but I strive on my knees for their good. And when I have made up my mind that a thing is right to do, thou knowest that my nature is of iron.
Sida 423 - It will come at length, through the highest cultivation of all human faculties ; through the recognition of the truth that in the endless sweep of infinitude there can be no break, nothing...
Sida 423 - ... our souls ! Not for a reward in another existence, but to help to the full extent of our power, be it little or great, be the...
Sida 186 - Johnson, in the proposal of marriage you have just made," said the haughty young lady, "but circumstances over which I have no control compel me to decline the honor." "What are those circumstances?