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... hear it's a very fine property . Well , " with a sudden and sharp change of tone , as if addressing a new - comer , why are you 66 listening so attentively ? Is there anything remarkable in what I'm saying , or that con- cerns you ...
... hear it's a very fine property . Well , " with a sudden and sharp change of tone , as if addressing a new - comer , why are you 66 listening so attentively ? Is there anything remarkable in what I'm saying , or that con- cerns you ...
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... hear it from many another besides Shane O'Reilly . Whose fault it is that it's unusual is a ques- tion for some people to settle . It isn't Mr. Nugent , at all events . " " This wonderful gentleman , who appears to have accomplished ...
... hear it from many another besides Shane O'Reilly . Whose fault it is that it's unusual is a ques- tion for some people to settle . It isn't Mr. Nugent , at all events . " " This wonderful gentleman , who appears to have accomplished ...
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... hear you wishing again that I may learn any one's ways but my own , " and she attempted to whirl her round as she had me . But the wary old lady , per- ceiving her design , took such a firm hold of the table that she found it impossible ...
... hear you wishing again that I may learn any one's ways but my own , " and she attempted to whirl her round as she had me . But the wary old lady , per- ceiving her design , took such a firm hold of the table that she found it impossible ...
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... so thick was the door , that we could not hear a sound of life from the other part of the house . The silence was like that of a vault , and so was the air . It was so strewed with bricks and slates which had AN IRISH NOVEL . 55.
... so thick was the door , that we could not hear a sound of life from the other part of the house . The silence was like that of a vault , and so was the air . It was so strewed with bricks and slates which had AN IRISH NOVEL . 55.
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... hear the words , or , if I do , I cannot remember them when I awake . " She said all this in a low , awe - struck undertone , and more as if speaking to herself than to me . I looked at her . She was very pale , and I thought her eyes ...
... hear the words , or , if I do , I cannot remember them when I awake . " She said all this in a low , awe - struck undertone , and more as if speaking to herself than to me . I looked at her . She was very pale , and I thought her eyes ...
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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.