A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... presently as they went down a dip in the hills . Far off in a green hollow , Maurice saw some white buildings - scattered untidily near a patch of water , which reflected the saffron - hued evening sky . ' That's Trevanard's , ' said ...
... presently as they went down a dip in the hills . Far off in a green hollow , Maurice saw some white buildings - scattered untidily near a patch of water , which reflected the saffron - hued evening sky . ' That's Trevanard's , ' said ...
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... presently , when they were going down into the valley . ' I've 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 ...
... presently , when they were going down into the valley . ' I've 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 ...
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... presently , and offered a thanksgiving after the meal . It was a long grace , Methodistical in tone , with an allusion to Esau's mess of pottage , which was brought in as a dreadful example of gluttony . After this ceremonial Mrs ...
... presently , and offered a thanksgiving after the meal . It was a long grace , Methodistical in tone , with an allusion to Esau's mess of pottage , which was brought in as a dreadful example of gluttony . After this ceremonial Mrs ...
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... presently , between the bedstead and the two windows . 6 Ay , verily a ghost , ' thought Maurice , with a feeling like ice - cold water circulating slowly through every artery in his body . Never had he seen , or conceived within his ...
... presently , between the bedstead and the two windows . 6 Ay , verily a ghost , ' thought Maurice , with a feeling like ice - cold water circulating slowly through every artery in his body . Never had he seen , or conceived within his ...
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... presently into a sound slumber , from which he was only awakened by a friendly voice outside his door saying , ' Six o'clock , Mr. Clissold . If you want the long round I promised you last night we ought to start at seven . ' ' All ...
... presently into a sound slumber , from which he was only awakened by a friendly voice outside his door saying , ' Six o'clock , Mr. Clissold . If you want the long round I promised you last night we ought to start at seven . ' ' All ...
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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...