A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... Clissold . They were eyes which might have haunted the fancy of girlhood , with the dream of an ideal lover ; eyes in whose somewhat me- lancholy sweetness a poet would have read some strange life - history . The hair , a pale auburn ...
... Clissold . They were eyes which might have haunted the fancy of girlhood , with the dream of an ideal lover ; eyes in whose somewhat me- lancholy sweetness a poet would have read some strange life - history . The hair , a pale auburn ...
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... CLISSOLD entered the porch , scattering the affrighted fowls right and left . As they sped cack- ling away , the house door , which had stood ajar , was opened wider by a middle - aged woman , who looked at the intruder frowningly ...
... CLISSOLD entered the porch , scattering the affrighted fowls right and left . As they sped cack- ling away , the house door , which had stood ajar , was opened wider by a middle - aged woman , who looked at the intruder frowningly ...
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... Clissold had a pleasant voice and a pleasant smile . Mrs. Trevanard looked at him doubt- fully , softened in spite of herself by his manner . And then no Trevanard was ever above earning an honest penny . They had not grown rich by ...
... Clissold had a pleasant voice and a pleasant smile . Mrs. Trevanard looked at him doubt- fully , softened in spite of herself by his manner . And then no Trevanard was ever above earning an honest penny . They had not grown rich by ...
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... Clissold , ' said the applicant , taking a card out of his pocket - book and throwing it on the polished beechwood table , the only handsome piece of furniture in the room . A massive oblong table , big enough for twelve or fourteen ...
... Clissold , ' said the applicant , taking a card out of his pocket - book and throwing it on the polished beechwood table , the only handsome piece of furniture in the room . A massive oblong table , big enough for twelve or fourteen ...
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... Clissold , that's the gentleman's name , is a friend of the family up yonder . ' An upward jerk of Martin's head in- dicated the Manor House . ' Any friend of the Squire's , or any one your mother thinks proper to accommodate , my lad ...
... Clissold , that's the gentleman's name , is a friend of the family up yonder . ' An upward jerk of Martin's head in- dicated the Manor House . ' Any friend of the Squire's , or any one your mother thinks proper to accommodate , my lad ...
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Page 246 - To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way...
Page 34 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 24 - ... occasionally felt severely the loss of her children; often when she thought of them, she shut herself up in her garret, and wept bitterly. She carefully avoided schools, and every place where children were to be met; and seemed to be particularly conscientious in paying off the debts of Gottfried. She loved money, not so much for its own sake, as because it afforded her the means of making a figure among her acquaintances, and so of gratifying her vanity. Yet in spite of all these murders, she...