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Page 44
... fancy looked like eyes , and at them I seemed compelled to gaze by a kind of fascination . I imagined they were constantly changing their expression . Some- times they were menacing , sometimes warn- ing , then pitying , and again they ...
... fancy looked like eyes , and at them I seemed compelled to gaze by a kind of fascination . I imagined they were constantly changing their expression . Some- times they were menacing , sometimes warn- ing , then pitying , and again they ...
Page 109
... fancy he thought I was a rebel in disguise , from the way he stared at me , " said Catherine . Yes , Miss , jest . I'd have liked to have knocked off his head last night for his im- pedence . Musha , Shane , it's a pity you didn't lave ...
... fancy he thought I was a rebel in disguise , from the way he stared at me , " said Catherine . Yes , Miss , jest . I'd have liked to have knocked off his head last night for his im- pedence . Musha , Shane , it's a pity you didn't lave ...
Page 145
... fancy to that chap there , ugly as his looks is . He wanted him for a comrade , an ' you disappointed him . I on'y hope bad loock won't overtake ye for that same . Yiv the best wishes o ' Donal , the tinderest hearted demon breathin ...
... fancy to that chap there , ugly as his looks is . He wanted him for a comrade , an ' you disappointed him . I on'y hope bad loock won't overtake ye for that same . Yiv the best wishes o ' Donal , the tinderest hearted demon breathin ...
Page 240
... fancy , the eyes seemed to follow her daughter with a sorrowful expression . Catherine was now standing at the window . Suddenly she threw it open . I knew not what to do . She seemed as if about to jump from it . She stretched out her ...
... fancy , the eyes seemed to follow her daughter with a sorrowful expression . Catherine was now standing at the window . Suddenly she threw it open . I knew not what to do . She seemed as if about to jump from it . She stretched out her ...
Page 277
... fancy something worse even than the truth . Be- sides , I think I ought to hear this explanation ; though Mr. Verney is my guardian , I know nothing whatever of him ; it is only right that I should know something . It will help me to ...
... fancy something worse even than the truth . Be- sides , I think I ought to hear this explanation ; though Mr. Verney is my guardian , I know nothing whatever of him ; it is only right that I should know something . It will help me to ...
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Page 47 - 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!
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Page 85 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Page 240 - twas visible— I saw not, but I felt that it was there. That which I saw was the revealed abode Of Spirits in beatitude: my heart Swelled in my breast—' I have been dead,' I cried,
Page 277 - ... dress that one of the young men — the young savants — was so good as to drop there. Did you see the young savants who work under Gordon's orders ? I thought they were too forlorn ; there is n't one of them you would look at. If you can believe it, there was n't one of them that looked at me ; they took no more notice of me than if I had been the charwoman. They might have shown me some attention, at least, as the wife of the proprietor. What is it that Gordon 's called — is n't there some...
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Page 1 - SEVERAL years have passed since the events occurred which I am about to relate in this narrative.