The Price She Paid: A NovelJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1882 - 429 sidor |
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... tell me how to address , and I'll be yours respectfully in a style to astonish my nearest relations . I've got none except grandma , unless I count old Doctor , -that's my gray cat ! Oh , I ought to have mentioned in my letter --it's ...
... tell me how to address , and I'll be yours respectfully in a style to astonish my nearest relations . I've got none except grandma , unless I count old Doctor , -that's my gray cat ! Oh , I ought to have mentioned in my letter --it's ...
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... tell the difference between wheat and rye . Positively it would be a charitable work to turn his head a bit , and so open her eyes . Why , it is worse than Beauty and the Beast ; it is Titania and Bottom . " All of which was as ...
... tell the difference between wheat and rye . Positively it would be a charitable work to turn his head a bit , and so open her eyes . Why , it is worse than Beauty and the Beast ; it is Titania and Bottom . " All of which was as ...
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... tell Mr. Sykes ! Will you sit down and rest till I come ? You mustn't tire yourself to death the first day . " Miss Grosvenor elected to wait , and Phillis , after seeing her comfortably established on the mossy turf , with her back ...
... tell Mr. Sykes ! Will you sit down and rest till I come ? You mustn't tire yourself to death the first day . " Miss Grosvenor elected to wait , and Phillis , after seeing her comfortably established on the mossy turf , with her back ...
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... tell every girl who means to marry a farmer to insist that her bridegroom should buy all sorts of labor - saving machines , down to that for pitting cherries he can do it for his farm , why not for his kitchen ? They will cost no more ...
... tell every girl who means to marry a farmer to insist that her bridegroom should buy all sorts of labor - saving machines , down to that for pitting cherries he can do it for his farm , why not for his kitchen ? They will cost no more ...
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... tell me that a man ought not to aspire , ought not to desire position , celebrity ? " " I mean to say that I think the man who sets out simply to attain that end is actuated by a very petty , selfish motive . " " But some achievement he ...
... tell me that a man ought not to aspire , ought not to desire position , celebrity ? " " I mean to say that I think the man who sets out simply to attain that end is actuated by a very petty , selfish motive . " " But some achievement he ...
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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?