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... glance at the two somewhat wild - looking horses , who were shaking their manes and impatiently pawing the ground , as if eager to be off . " Is Verney Court a modern building ? " I asked , wishing to get an idea of the place , that I ...
... glance at the two somewhat wild - looking horses , who were shaking their manes and impatiently pawing the ground , as if eager to be off . " Is Verney Court a modern building ? " I asked , wishing to get an idea of the place , that I ...
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... glance to- wards her father . He was reading , or , at least seemed to be reading his newspaper , but I felt an unpleasant consciousness that he heard every word we uttered , and , whether it was this , or that Catherine's constraint ...
... glance to- wards her father . He was reading , or , at least seemed to be reading his newspaper , but I felt an unpleasant consciousness that he heard every word we uttered , and , whether it was this , or that Catherine's constraint ...
Page 39
... glance from her own image to mine , and smile a little satisfied smile . " Do you think it's true , Grace ? " she said , sitting down . " Think what true ? " " What Cecil said . " " It's very likely he thinks so . " " But would others ...
... glance from her own image to mine , and smile a little satisfied smile . " Do you think it's true , Grace ? " she said , sitting down . " Think what true ? " " What Cecil said . " " It's very likely he thinks so . " " But would others ...
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... glance at Catherine . Daylight did not show him in a much more favourable aspect than amid the terrors of the storm . He appeared to be now , as then , in a state of partial in- toxication , and his eyes were watery , his step feeble ...
... glance at Catherine . Daylight did not show him in a much more favourable aspect than amid the terrors of the storm . He appeared to be now , as then , in a state of partial in- toxication , and his eyes were watery , his step feeble ...
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... glance as she shortly and evasively replied to what I had asked . I saw that she would elude any inquiries of mine , as Catherine had told . me she did hers . To whom else could I apply ? I had heard that the Prestons had been living in ...
... glance as she shortly and evasively replied to what I had asked . I saw that she would elude any inquiries of mine , as Catherine had told . me she did hers . To whom else could I apply ? I had heard that the Prestons had been living in ...
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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!
Page 13 - The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
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...
Page 259 - I could not have been asleep for more than an hour, when I was awakened by the peculiar creaking noise which the opening of my door always produced.
Page 1 - SEVERAL years have passed since the events occurred which I am about to relate in this narrative.