A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... believe . ' They had reached the lobby door by this time , the chief hall door being kept religiously bolted and barred during the absence of the family . ' I shall come and see you again , Mrs. Darvis , most likely , before I leave ...
... believe . ' They had reached the lobby door by this time , the chief hall door being kept religiously bolted and barred during the absence of the family . ' I shall come and see you again , Mrs. Darvis , most likely , before I leave ...
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... believe he's over - fond of hunting , though he subscribes handsomely to the hounds . I never knew such a fellow for doing everything liberally . He's bound to be popular , for he's the best master they ever had at the Manor . ' ' And ...
... believe he's over - fond of hunting , though he subscribes handsomely to the hounds . I never knew such a fellow for doing everything liberally . He's bound to be popular , for he's the best master they ever had at the Manor . ' ' And ...
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... believe any such rubbish , sir . ' ( Of course ; only this room looks the very pic- ture of a haunted chamber , and if I were capable of believing in ghosts I should certainly lie awake on the look - out for one to - night . ' ' Those ...
... believe any such rubbish , sir . ' ( Of course ; only this room looks the very pic- ture of a haunted chamber , and if I were capable of believing in ghosts I should certainly lie awake on the look - out for one to - night . ' ' Those ...
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... believe . ' We get up every morning ' Ah , that's a complaint I don't suffer from . Father says I haven't any brains . I tell him brains don't grow at Borcel End . One year is so like another that we get to be a kind of clockwork , like ...
... believe . ' We get up every morning ' Ah , that's a complaint I don't suffer from . Father says I haven't any brains . I tell him brains don't grow at Borcel End . One year is so like another that we get to be a kind of clockwork , like ...
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... tortured him . His soldiers went mad with revenge , and roasted some of the miscreants alive afterwards , I believe ; but that wouldn't bring the captain to life again . ' ' Do you remember him ? " ' Well . 46 A STRANGE WORLD .
... tortured him . His soldiers went mad with revenge , and roasted some of the miscreants alive afterwards , I believe ; but that wouldn't bring the captain to life again . ' ' Do you remember him ? " ' Well . 46 A STRANGE WORLD .
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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...