The Price She Paid: A NovelJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1882 - 429 sidor |
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... like an angel . Do you excel in needlework ? " " Goodness ! no . " " Neither does he . Can you speak seven languages ? " " Thanks to my laziness , I cannot . " " Nor can he . you hate him ! Observe 16 THE PRICE SHE PAID .
... like an angel . Do you excel in needlework ? " " Goodness ! no . " " Neither does he . Can you speak seven languages ? " " Thanks to my laziness , I cannot . " " Nor can he . you hate him ! Observe 16 THE PRICE SHE PAID .
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... Thanks , " Georgia answered ; " my journey was hardly long enough to give me an excuse for calling myself tired ... thank you for giving me the invitation , " said Bourke , bluntly . Miss Grosvenor's face showed a faint surprise at ...
... Thanks , " Georgia answered ; " my journey was hardly long enough to give me an excuse for calling myself tired ... thank you for giving me the invitation , " said Bourke , bluntly . Miss Grosvenor's face showed a faint surprise at ...
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... Thanks , you are very good ! " said he , paused as if wanting to add something , began to turn red anew , faltered out " Good - by ! " and retired behind the thicket as abruptly ás he had started forth . Georgia had just settled herself ...
... Thanks , you are very good ! " said he , paused as if wanting to add something , began to turn red anew , faltered out " Good - by ! " and retired behind the thicket as abruptly ás he had started forth . Georgia had just settled herself ...
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... under a moss - grown rock , and Denis Bourke was bathing her forehead . Presently she recovered voice to thank him , and declared her ability to walk home . " You must sit still for a while , " 42 THE PRICE SHE PAID .
... under a moss - grown rock , and Denis Bourke was bathing her forehead . Presently she recovered voice to thank him , and declared her ability to walk home . " You must sit still for a while , " 42 THE PRICE SHE PAID .
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... " if there's anything you young ladies want to do to yourselves , Tabitha will take you up - stairs . " " Our best thanks for your elegantly expressed proposal , " returned she , " but our paint does not rub 48 THE PRICE SHE PAID .
... " if there's anything you young ladies want to do to yourselves , Tabitha will take you up - stairs . " " Our best thanks for your elegantly expressed proposal , " returned she , " but our paint does not rub 48 THE PRICE SHE PAID .
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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?