St. George; Or, The Canadian League, Volume 2E.G. Fuller, 1852 - American fiction |
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... replied not . 66 Speak ! " cried his Inquisitor , pointing his forefinger at his forehead , " speak ! I will it ! " " I have borne the name of Julian Erleloff . " " And what recollections are coupled with that name ? " " I dare not ...
... replied not . 66 Speak ! " cried his Inquisitor , pointing his forefinger at his forehead , " speak ! I will it ! " " I have borne the name of Julian Erleloff . " " And what recollections are coupled with that name ? " " I dare not ...
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... replied Anne , " it is thus I love Edward Went- worth , " and again she blushed at this candid declaration . " But you have not known him but a very short time . " " That matters not , " returned Anne , " I am a believer in the doctrine ...
... replied Anne , " it is thus I love Edward Went- worth , " and again she blushed at this candid declaration . " But you have not known him but a very short time . " " That matters not , " returned Anne , " I am a believer in the doctrine ...
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... replied , laugh- ing . " You would not mind it , were I to tell you , that you would never see him again ? " Not at all , " she answered- " Can I not get them by dozens ? " " Well , Anne , " he said , keeping his hand tightly pressed on ...
... replied , laugh- ing . " You would not mind it , were I to tell you , that you would never see him again ? " Not at all , " she answered- " Can I not get them by dozens ? " " Well , Anne , " he said , keeping his hand tightly pressed on ...
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... replied . " Do you not know , " he continued , passing his hand before her face , and mingling his breath with hers , " that you have long loved me - and that I return your love ten - fold — that we have loved each other from childhood ...
... replied . " Do you not know , " he continued , passing his hand before her face , and mingling his breath with hers , " that you have long loved me - and that I return your love ten - fold — that we have loved each other from childhood ...
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... replied . " There is but one course - that is a very obvious one - re- turn to your home , and act as if nothing extraordinary had happened . Why you would be mad to act in any other man- ner , because that is the only course that would ...
... replied . " There is but one course - that is a very obvious one - re- turn to your home , and act as if nothing extraordinary had happened . Why you would be mad to act in any other man- ner , because that is the only course that would ...
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Page 297 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well ; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme ; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe...
Page 43 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 269 - Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers; And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The...
Page 190 - The mists boil up around the glaciers; clouds Rise curling fast beneath me, white and sulphury, Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell, Whose every wave breaks on a living shore, Heap'd with the damn'd like pebbles.— I am giddy.
Page 41 - Lower Canada. 4. That all union between Church and State is hereby declared to be DISSOLVED, and every person shall be at liberty freely to exercise such religion or belief as shall be dictated to him by his conscience.
Page 158 - ... to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead; and may God, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your soul!
Page 269 - HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there...
Page 181 - O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, And then the end is known.
Page 39 - Acts passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of King George III., hath been continually violated by the British Government, and our rights usurped ; And...
Page 1 - II is no marvel — from my very birth My soul was drunk with love, which did pervade And mingle with whate'er I saw on earth ; Of objects all inanimate I made Idols, and out of wild and lonely flowers, And rocks, whereby they grew, a paradise, "Whero 1 did lay me down within the shade Of waving trees, and dream'd uncounted hours, Though I was chid for wandering...