A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... asked Maurice . ' Things that other people don't know . ' ' Well , my lass , I won't trouble you by sounding the obscure depths of your wisdom . I only want the straightest road to Trevanard's farm . He is a tenant of this estate , I ...
... asked Maurice . ' Things that other people don't know . ' ' Well , my lass , I won't trouble you by sounding the obscure depths of your wisdom . I only want the straightest road to Trevanard's farm . He is a tenant of this estate , I ...
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... asked , presently , when they were going down into the valley . ' I've never been inside it , ' answered Elspeth , glibly , more communicative now than she had been an hour or two ago , when Churchill questioned her about the house of ...
... asked , presently , when they were going down into the valley . ' I've never been inside it , ' answered Elspeth , glibly , more communicative now than she had been an hour or two ago , when Churchill questioned her about the house of ...
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... asking hospitality at Borcel End . ' Oh , I don't know about that . She's civil enough to gentlefolks , I've heard say . It's only her servants and such like she's so stiff with . You can but try . ' They were at the farm by this time ...
... asking hospitality at Borcel End . ' Oh , I don't know about that . She's civil enough to gentlefolks , I've heard say . It's only her servants and such like she's so stiff with . You can but try . ' They were at the farm by this time ...
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... ' ' Put your money in your pocket , sir . You're a friend of Mr. Penwyn's , I suppose ? ' asked Mrs. Trevanard , still doubtful . ' I know the present Mr. Penwyn , but I ' O'ER ALL THERE HUNG A SHADOW AND A FEAR . ' 19.
... ' ' Put your money in your pocket , sir . You're a friend of Mr. Penwyn's , I suppose ? ' asked Mrs. Trevanard , still doubtful . ' I know the present Mr. Penwyn , but I ' O'ER ALL THERE HUNG A SHADOW AND A FEAR . ' 19.
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... asked . There was a cowboy who would perform that service , it seemed . Martin went out himself to look for the rustic Mercury . ' He's a good - natured lad , my son , ' said Mrs. Trevanard , but full of fancies . That comes of idle ...
... asked . There was a cowboy who would perform that service , it seemed . Martin went out himself to look for the rustic Mercury . ' He's a good - natured lad , my son , ' said Mrs. Trevanard , but full of fancies . That comes of idle ...
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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...