A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... nature , a patient slave at the mill . Martin was the only creature at Borcel who escaped her influence . For him life meant the indulgence of his own fancies , with just so much work as gave him an appetite for his meals . He would ...
... nature , a patient slave at the mill . Martin was the only creature at Borcel who escaped her influence . For him life meant the indulgence of his own fancies , with just so much work as gave him an appetite for his meals . He would ...
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... Nature's gentlewomen . It would have been a little difficult for her to learn all the duties of a châtelaine , perhaps - how to order a dinner , and whom to invite - the laws of precedence - the science . of morning calls . But if James ...
... Nature's gentlewomen . It would have been a little difficult for her to learn all the duties of a châtelaine , perhaps - how to order a dinner , and whom to invite - the laws of precedence - the science . of morning calls . But if James ...
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... - 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 that would ' HE COMETH NOT , ' SHE SAID . 45.
... - 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 that would ' HE COMETH NOT , ' SHE SAID . 45.
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... nature which had won for the farmer's wife the repu- tation of a stern and exacting mistress . His closer examination of that face showed him no indication of lurking evil . That square , unwrinkled brow , those dark brown eyes , with ...
... nature which had won for the farmer's wife the repu- tation of a stern and exacting mistress . His closer examination of that face showed him no indication of lurking evil . That square , unwrinkled brow , those dark brown eyes , with ...
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... nature of madness to accuse the sane . Maurice tried to put the thought of Muriel's wild talk out of his mind ; yet that awful question , ' What has she done with my child ? ' haunted him . He felt less desire to prolong his stay at ...
... nature of madness to accuse the sane . Maurice tried to put the thought of Muriel's wild talk out of his mind ; yet that awful question , ' What has she done with my child ? ' haunted him . He felt less desire to prolong his stay at ...
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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...