The Price She Paid: A NovelJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1882 - 429 sidor |
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... pretty that Georgia involuntarily uttered an exclamation - brought up to the end of the platform in capital style . The charioteer sprang out , consigned her steed to the care of a porter , and walked towards Miss Grosvenor . " You are ...
... pretty that Georgia involuntarily uttered an exclamation - brought up to the end of the platform in capital style . The charioteer sprang out , consigned her steed to the care of a porter , and walked towards Miss Grosvenor . " You are ...
Sida 8
... Pretty well for that , " replied the other complacently , and then they shook hands . " Is that your baggage ? Jim Hodgkins shall take it up in his wagon . Jim , Jim ! attend to those trunks , like a good soul , and don't go to sleep on ...
... Pretty well for that , " replied the other complacently , and then they shook hands . " Is that your baggage ? Jim Hodgkins shall take it up in his wagon . Jim , Jim ! attend to those trunks , like a good soul , and don't go to sleep on ...
Sida 9
... pretty , porcelain , persimmons : do you want any more words ? I own a dic- tionary . I bought it when I made up my mind to take boarders . You'll have to pay for that too , and it's a very big one ! I've been studying it night and day ...
... pretty , porcelain , persimmons : do you want any more words ? I own a dic- tionary . I bought it when I made up my mind to take boarders . You'll have to pay for that too , and it's a very big one ! I've been studying it night and day ...
Sida 10
... pretty an old dwelling as a pre - Raphaelite painter could have found to go into ecstasies over , with its gray front darkened by time , its moss - grown roof , its long veranda shaded by masses of wisteria , brimful vines and creeping ...
... pretty an old dwelling as a pre - Raphaelite painter could have found to go into ecstasies over , with its gray front darkened by time , its moss - grown roof , its long veranda shaded by masses of wisteria , brimful vines and creeping ...
Sida 11
... pretty , well - grown quadroon girl of sixteen appeared , blushing and laughing . " I call her Cinders , because she never had a spot on her , " was the explanation . " Now we have seen the house , come look at the garden , and my dairy ...
... pretty , well - grown quadroon girl of sixteen appeared , blushing and laughing . " I call her Cinders , because she never had a spot on her , " was the explanation . " Now we have seen the house , come look at the garden , and my dairy ...
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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?