A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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Page 86
... that western land - and Viola , fair and flower - like , a beauty to be worshipped so much the more for that frail loveliness which had a fatal air of evan- escence . ' I'm afraid she won't live long , ' whispered 86 A STRANGE WORLD .
... that western land - and Viola , fair and flower - like , a beauty to be worshipped so much the more for that frail loveliness which had a fatal air of evan- escence . ' I'm afraid she won't live long , ' whispered 86 A STRANGE WORLD .
Page 94
... Viola's words , ' simply perfect . ' It was impossible to imagine devotedness more thorough yet less obtrusive . His face never turned towards his wife without brightening like a landscape in a sudden gleam of sunlight . There was ...
... Viola's words , ' simply perfect . ' It was impossible to imagine devotedness more thorough yet less obtrusive . His face never turned towards his wife without brightening like a landscape in a sudden gleam of sunlight . There was ...
Page 95
... Viola remarked to her sister ; but he is so divinely good about it — she was a young lady who delighted in strong adverbs that I hardly realize what a sponge I am . ' And then came sisterly embracings and protes- tations . Thus the ...
... Viola remarked to her sister ; but he is so divinely good about it — she was a young lady who delighted in strong adverbs that I hardly realize what a sponge I am . ' And then came sisterly embracings and protes- tations . Thus the ...
Page 126
... Viola was in raptures . This young nephew was the first baby that had ever entered into the sum of her daily life . She seemed to regard him as a phenomenon ; very much as grave fellows of the Zoological Society regarded the first ...
... Viola was in raptures . This young nephew was the first baby that had ever entered into the sum of her daily life . She seemed to regard him as a phenomenon ; very much as grave fellows of the Zoological Society regarded the first ...
Page 132
... Viola was dancing to her heart's content under the wing of some good - natured chaperon , like Lady Cheshunt . That friendly dowager was enraptured with her protégée's domestic life . ' My sweet love , you renew one's belief in Arcadia ...
... Viola was dancing to her heart's content under the wing of some good - natured chaperon , like Lady Cheshunt . That friendly dowager was enraptured with her protégée's domestic life . ' My sweet love , you renew one's belief in Arcadia ...
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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...