A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... HALF ΤΟ THE SETTING MOON HAVE GONE , AND HALF TO THE RISING DAY ' · XIV . ' O HEAVEN ! THAT ONE MIGHT READ THE BOOK OF " FATE ! ' · · • 182 201 XV . ' QUI PEUT sous le soleil TROMPER SA DESTINEE ? ' 209 XVI . THIS IS MORE STRANGE THAN ...
... HALF ΤΟ THE SETTING MOON HAVE GONE , AND HALF TO THE RISING DAY ' · XIV . ' O HEAVEN ! THAT ONE MIGHT READ THE BOOK OF " FATE ! ' · · • 182 201 XV . ' QUI PEUT sous le soleil TROMPER SA DESTINEE ? ' 209 XVI . THIS IS MORE STRANGE THAN ...
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... Half one's memories of faces are derived from pictures , and they flash across the mind suddenly , like a recollection of another world . However , I mustn't stand prosing here , while the sun goes down yonder . I have to find a lodging ...
... Half one's memories of faces are derived from pictures , and they flash across the mind suddenly , like a recollection of another world . However , I mustn't stand prosing here , while the sun goes down yonder . I have to find a lodging ...
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... half - crowns into her hand as he spoke , but these Mrs. Darvis rejected most decidedly . ' Ours has never been what you can call a show place , sir , and I've never looked for that kind of perquisite . ' " Come , young one , ' said ...
... half - crowns into her hand as he spoke , but these Mrs. Darvis rejected most decidedly . ' Ours has never been what you can call a show place , sir , and I've never looked for that kind of perquisite . ' " Come , young one , ' said ...
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... half - crowns with unmistakable greed . Her sharp face brightened at Maurice's promise . ' I'll show you the way , sir , ' she said ; ' I know every step of it . ' Yes , the lass is always roaming about , like a wild creature , over the ...
... half - crowns with unmistakable greed . Her sharp face brightened at Maurice's promise . ' I'll show you the way , sir , ' she said ; ' I know every step of it . ' Yes , the lass is always roaming about , like a wild creature , over the ...
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... half - crown . The girl turned the coin over with a delighted look before she put it in her pocket . ' I'll go to Borcel End with you , ' she said . ' I'd as lief be on the hills as at home- sooner , for grandmother is not over ...
... half - crown . The girl turned the coin over with a delighted look before she put it in her pocket . ' I'll go to Borcel End with you , ' she said . ' I'd as lief be on the hills as at home- sooner , for grandmother is not over ...
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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...