A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... dark blue . The rest of the features , though suffi- ciently regular , were commonplace enough ; but the eyes , beautiful alike in shape and colour , impressed Maurice Clissold . They were eyes which might have haunted the fancy of ...
... dark blue . The rest of the features , though suffi- ciently regular , were commonplace enough ; but the eyes , beautiful alike in shape and colour , impressed Maurice Clissold . They were eyes which might have haunted the fancy of ...
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... dark you must come on , sir , ' said Elspeth . Maurice took the hint , and followed at his briskest pace . They were soon out of the pine grove , which they left by a little wooden gate , and on the wild wide hills , where the distant ...
... dark you must come on , sir , ' said Elspeth . Maurice took the hint , and followed at his briskest pace . They were soon out of the pine grove , which they left by a little wooden gate , and on the wild wide hills , where the distant ...
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... dark , ' she said , in her shrill young voice , so young and yet so old in tone . ' I know every star in the sky . Besides , it's never dark at this time of year . I'll go on to Borcel End with you . May be you mayn't get accommodated ...
... dark , ' she said , in her shrill young voice , so young and yet so old in tone . ' I know every star in the sky . Besides , it's never dark at this time of year . I'll go on to Borcel End with you . May be you mayn't get accommodated ...
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... dark garments , with only a narrow white border peeping from under a cowl - shaped black silk cap , a dingy red handker- chief pinned across her shoulders , and two bony hands , whose shrivelled fingers moved with a me- chanical ...
... dark garments , with only a narrow white border peeping from under a cowl - shaped black silk cap , a dingy red handker- chief pinned across her shoulders , and two bony hands , whose shrivelled fingers moved with a me- chanical ...
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... dark corner beyond the glow of the fire . Maurice felt that the room was less comfortable somehow , since he had discovered the presence of this old woman , with her sightless orbs , and never - resting fingers , long and lean , weaving ...
... dark corner beyond the glow of the fire . Maurice felt that the room was less comfortable somehow , since he had discovered the presence of this old woman , with her sightless orbs , and never - resting fingers , long and lean , weaving ...
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actress asked Maurice beauty better Borcel End bright burglar Cavendish Square child chintz church Churchill Penwyn clotted cream comfort Cornish Cornwall dare say dark Darvis daughter dear dinner door dress Eborsham Elspeth eyes face fair fancy father feel fellow fire Flittergilt gipsy girl grandmother grey hair hand happy hear heard heart Helstone hour husband James Penwyn's Justina kind knew Lady Cheshunt light lodge lodge-keeper London look Madge Manor House married Martin Trevanard Matthew Elgood Maurice Clissold Maurice's mind Miss Bellingham moorland morning mother murder Muriel never old woman Penwyn Manor perhaps pleasant poet poor pretty Rebecca Seacomb seemed seen servant Sir Lewis Dallas sister sorrow soul Squire Squire's supper suppose sweet talk Tarpan tell theatre There's thing thought Maurice told Tresillian turned Viola walked wife word young
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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...