A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... live in -- in which all that architecture can conjure from the splendour of the past is more or less disfigured by the tinsel of the present . ' Dear old James , to think that he wanted ' FAREWELL , AND COME AGAIN TO - MORROW . ' 9.
... live in -- in which all that architecture can conjure from the splendour of the past is more or less disfigured by the tinsel of the present . ' Dear old James , to think that he wanted ' FAREWELL , AND COME AGAIN TO - MORROW . ' 9.
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... lives well . There's always good eating and drinking at Borcel End , folks say . I've heard tell as it was a gentleman's house once , before old Squire Penwyn bought it , and that there was a fine park round the house . There's plenty ...
... lives well . There's always good eating and drinking at Borcel End , folks say . I've heard tell as it was a gentleman's house once , before old Squire Penwyn bought it , and that there was a fine park round the house . There's plenty ...
Page 45
... lives we might just as well be a couple of slow - going machines . ' ' There is nothing drowsy or mechanical about your mother's nature , I should think , in spite of the quiet life you all lead here . ' ' No , mother's mind is a candle ...
... lives we might just as well be a couple of slow - going machines . ' ' There is nothing drowsy or mechanical about your mother's nature , I should think , in spite of the quiet life you all lead here . ' ' No , mother's mind is a candle ...
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... live among you when you are alone ? ' No , she has a little room over granny's , with a little old - fashioned staircase leading up to it . A room quite cut off from the rest of the house . You can't reach it except by going through ...
... live among you when you are alone ? ' No , she has a little room over granny's , with a little old - fashioned staircase leading up to it . A room quite cut off from the rest of the house . You can't reach it except by going through ...
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... lives in a room by herself . Does she never have air or exercise ? ' ' Do you imagine us barbarians ? Yes , she roams about the old neglected garden at the back of the house , just as she pleases , but never goes beyond . She has a ...
... lives in a room by herself . Does she never have air or exercise ? ' ' Do you imagine us barbarians ? Yes , she roams about the old neglected garden at the back of the house , just as she pleases , but never goes beyond . She has a ...
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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...