A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... NEVER WASTED THERE ' . 158 XII . IT WAS THE HOUR WHEN WOODS ARE COLD . 165 XIII . NOW 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 ...
... NEVER WASTED THERE ' . 158 XII . IT WAS THE HOUR WHEN WOODS ARE COLD . 165 XIII . NOW 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 ...
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... never been what you can call a show place , sir , and I've never looked for that kind of perquisite . ' " Come , young one , ' said Maurice , after taking leave of the friendly old housekeeper , ' you can 6 A STRANGE WORLD .
... never been what you can call a show place , sir , and I've never looked for that kind of perquisite . ' " Come , young one , ' said Maurice , after taking leave of the friendly old housekeeper , ' you can 6 A STRANGE WORLD .
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... never dark at this time of year . I'll go on to Borcel End with you . May be you mayn't get accommodated there , and then I can show you a near way across the hills to Penwyn village . You might get shelter at one of the cottages anyhow ...
... never dark at this time of year . I'll go on to Borcel End with you . May be you mayn't get accommodated there , and then I can show you a near way across the hills to Penwyn village . You might get shelter at one of the cottages anyhow ...
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... never been inside it , ' answered Elspeth , glibly , more communicative now than she had been an hour or two ago , when Churchill questioned her about the house of Penwyn . ' Mrs. Trevanard isn't one to encourage a poor girl like me ...
... never been inside it , ' answered Elspeth , glibly , more communicative now than she had been an hour or two ago , when Churchill questioned her about the house of Penwyn . ' Mrs. Trevanard isn't one to encourage a poor girl like me ...
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... never been such a mansion as the old Tudor Manor House of Penwyn . There was a homeliness in the architecture which aspired to neither dignity nor beauty . Low ceilings , square latticed windows , dormers in the roof , and heavy chimney ...
... never been such a mansion as the old Tudor Manor House of Penwyn . There was a homeliness in the architecture which aspired to neither dignity nor beauty . Low ceilings , square latticed windows , dormers in the roof , and heavy chimney ...
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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...