A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... REST . AH ! NEITHER BE MY 6 SHARE ix . SUCH A LORD IS LOVE X. THEN STREAMED LIFE'S FUTURE ON THE FADING 6 6 PAST ' 100 107 121 ยท 134 XI . ' A MERRIER HOUR WAS NEVER WASTED THERE ' . 158 XII . IT WAS THE HOUR WHEN WOODS ARE COLD . 165 ...
... REST . AH ! NEITHER BE MY 6 SHARE ix . SUCH A LORD IS LOVE X. THEN STREAMED LIFE'S FUTURE ON THE FADING 6 6 PAST ' 100 107 121 ยท 134 XI . ' A MERRIER HOUR WAS NEVER WASTED THERE ' . 158 XII . IT WAS THE HOUR WHEN WOODS ARE COLD . 165 ...
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... rest of the features , though suffi- ciently regular , were commonplace enough ; but the eyes , beautiful alike in shape and colour , impressed Maurice Clissold . They were eyes which might have haunted the fancy of girlhood , with the ...
... rest of the features , though suffi- ciently regular , were commonplace enough ; but the eyes , beautiful alike in shape and colour , impressed Maurice Clissold . They were eyes which might have haunted the fancy of girlhood , with the ...
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon. the boundary of this ancient pleasance , but all the rest had vanished beneath the cloven hoof of the unclean animal . Though the farmyard showed on every side the tokens of agricultural prosperity , the house ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. the boundary of this ancient pleasance , but all the rest had vanished beneath the cloven hoof of the unclean animal . Though the farmyard showed on every side the tokens of agricultural prosperity , the house ...
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... rest anywhere until I am sure that I can get a night's shelter . There was no room for me at the " Bell " at Penwyn , but I left my knapsack there , thinking I should be forced to go back to the village anyhow . It was an afterthought ...
... rest anywhere until I am sure that I can get a night's shelter . There was no room for me at the " Bell " at Penwyn , but I left my knapsack there , thinking I should be forced to go back to the village anyhow . It was an afterthought ...
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... rest were eating their substantial meal . Maurice had eaten nothing since noon , and did ample justice to the lordly round of corned beef , and home - cured chine , the freshly gathered lettuces , and even the gooseberry pie and clotted ...
... rest were eating their substantial meal . Maurice had eaten nothing since noon , and did ample justice to the lordly round of corned beef , and home - cured chine , the freshly gathered lettuces , and even the gooseberry pie and clotted ...
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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...โ
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!โ
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...โ