A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... child , ' he said to himself . What a charm- ing helpmeet you will make for some honest peasant in days to come , with your amiable disposition ! He had taken his time looking at the old house , and listening to the housekeeper's story ...
... child , ' he said to himself . What a charm- ing helpmeet you will make for some honest peasant in days to come , with your amiable disposition ! He had taken his time looking at the old house , and listening to the housekeeper's story ...
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... caught the question . ' Stone blind , sir , for the last eighteen years . But the Lord has been good to me . I've a com- fortable home and kind children , and they don't turn me out of doors , though I'm such a 22 A STRANGE WORLD .
... caught the question . ' Stone blind , sir , for the last eighteen years . But the Lord has been good to me . I've a com- fortable home and kind children , and they don't turn me out of doors , though I'm such a 22 A STRANGE WORLD .
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... child might cheat with impunity , a man who could never have grown rich unaided . Mr. and Mrs. Trevanard , their son , and their guest , sat down to supper without delay ; but the old blind mother still kept her seat in the shadowy ...
... child might cheat with impunity , a man who could never have grown rich unaided . Mr. and Mrs. Trevanard , their son , and their guest , sat down to supper without delay ; but the old blind mother still kept her seat in the shadowy ...
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... worst enemy . with a bitter laugh . with my child ? ' Mother ! My mother ! ' Ask her what she has done That question came upon Maurice Clissold like a revelation . Here was a sadder story than he had 64 A STRANGE WORLD .
... worst enemy . with a bitter laugh . with my child ? ' Mother ! My mother ! ' Ask her what she has done That question came upon Maurice Clissold like a revelation . Here was a sadder story than he had 64 A STRANGE WORLD .
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... child ?? It set him thinking of dark stories of family pride and hidden crime . It took the flavour of enjoyment out of this rustic home , and imparted a taint of mystery and suspicion which poisoned the atmosphere . CHAPTER V. ́ SURELY ...
... child ?? It set him thinking of dark stories of family pride and hidden crime . It took the flavour of enjoyment out of this rustic home , and imparted a taint of mystery and suspicion which poisoned the atmosphere . CHAPTER V. ́ SURELY ...
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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...