An April Day: A NovelF. V. White, 1883 |
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... arms were thrown round his neck . " You dear old father , what has happened to you ? And what has become of the horse and car ? And oh , you are all covered with dust ! " And Miss Desmond stepped back and surveyed her father with an ...
... arms were thrown round his neck . " You dear old father , what has happened to you ? And what has become of the horse and car ? And oh , you are all covered with dust ! " And Miss Desmond stepped back and surveyed her father with an ...
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... arm - chair ; and what a splendid tree it is , " looking up into the massed - together roof of leaves ; " it looks awfully old . " " Yes , it is very , very old , " responded the girl . " It is an historic tree , and was planted by Hugh ...
... arm - chair ; and what a splendid tree it is , " looking up into the massed - together roof of leaves ; " it looks awfully old . " " Yes , it is very , very old , " responded the girl . " It is an historic tree , and was planted by Hugh ...
Page 84
... arms , and tell her how he loved her . The words were trembling on his lips , when suddenly a voice uttered some words , and turning sharply round , he saw Bertha Wynne advancing out of the shadow of the gate . " Mr O'Brien and I were ...
... arms , and tell her how he loved her . The words were trembling on his lips , when suddenly a voice uttered some words , and turning sharply round , he saw Bertha Wynne advancing out of the shadow of the gate . " Mr O'Brien and I were ...
Page 106
... arm to deliver the first ball . The game progressed but slowly now , for Lord Norwich , feeling that there was much at stake , was playing cautiously , and several overs passed without a run being made , but at length he began to hit ...
... arm to deliver the first ball . The game progressed but slowly now , for Lord Norwich , feeling that there was much at stake , was playing cautiously , and several overs passed without a run being made , but at length he began to hit ...
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... offer of driving them home . 66 " Oh , no , " interposed Kathleen hurriedly , we will walk . Good - bye . " And having extended a reluctant hand to Denis , she seized her father by the arm , and drew him I 20 An April Day .
... offer of driving them home . 66 " Oh , no , " interposed Kathleen hurriedly , we will walk . Good - bye . " And having extended a reluctant hand to Denis , she seized her father by the arm , and drew him I 20 An April Day .
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66 Kathleen afternoon answer arms asked Lord Norwich beauty began Bertha Wynne boreen bough branch bright Captain Ashurst caught chaff cheeks child cloud colour cricket cried Kathleen dark daugh dead silence Denis O'Brien Denis's Dermot Astore Derrylinn dogcart door faint father fear fell FLORENCE MARRYAT followed frightened gazing girl glance glen Glencullin House grass grew hand haunted house heard heart hedge hedgerows hope horse hurt hussars impa Kath Kathleen felt Kathleen's eyes lane laughed leen light lips listened Miss Bayley Miss Desmond Miss Wynne mond moon moonlight never night papa paused pleasant quickly reached returned Kathleen road round sang seated side silence sing Kathleen Mavourneen smile soft song sound spoke stood strange suddenly Sutton tell thought told tone took turned voice walk watching wich wish wood nymph words young
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Page 7 - Kathleen Mavourneen, awake from thy slumbers! The blue mountains glow in the sun's golden light; Ah, where is the spell that once hung on my numbers? Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my night! Mavourneen, Mavourneen, my sad tears are falling, To think that from Erin and thee I must part!
Page 178 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, 458 And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted.
Page 13 - Her vest of gold Broidered with flowers, and clasped from head to foot: An emerald stone in every golden clasp; And on her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of pearls. But then her face, So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, — The overflowings of an innocent heart, — It haunts me still, though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody.
Page 6 - Ah, where is the spell that once hung on my numbers? Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my night ! Mavourneen, Mavourneen, my sad tears are falling, To think that from Erin and thee I must part ! It may be for years, and it may be forever ! Then why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?
Page 225 - I and my love wont to gae ! 1 leaned my back unto an aik ; I thought it was a trusty tree ; But first it bowed, and syne it brak...
Page 67 - Good-night, good-night ! parting is such sweet sorrow. That I shall say — good-night, till it be morrow.
Page 88 - A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.