Who Will Save Her. A Novel1874 |
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... keep holy the Sabbath day . ' Now , Rummager doesn't . " " O ! " It is impossible for words to describe the tone of protest conveyed in this ejacula- tion , " Why , pa'son , I don't think that dog would bark at a cat , much more start a ...
... keep holy the Sabbath day . ' Now , Rummager doesn't . " " O ! " It is impossible for words to describe the tone of protest conveyed in this ejacula- tion , " Why , pa'son , I don't think that dog would bark at a cat , much more start a ...
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... keep me confined to my room , and say that I am not in my right mind , but that's not true . Oh , Mr. Mildmay ! I don't know what to do with all these people about me . Do come and see me , and see poor dear papa at once - at once ! at ...
... keep me confined to my room , and say that I am not in my right mind , but that's not true . Oh , Mr. Mildmay ! I don't know what to do with all these people about me . Do come and see me , and see poor dear papa at once - at once ! at ...
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... keep- ing with bottles of rum and the village inn . " I must apologise for a seeming rudeness , but I was myself put about to turn the out- side handle of the door when it opened . Listeners , it is proverbially said , hear no good 28 ...
... keep- ing with bottles of rum and the village inn . " I must apologise for a seeming rudeness , but I was myself put about to turn the out- side handle of the door when it opened . Listeners , it is proverbially said , hear no good 28 ...
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... keep the promise I made you to the very letter , and tell my father all ; but separa- tion has made my father strange to me , and it is with fear and trembling I shall await the result . How different was my feeling when , with my own ...
... keep the promise I made you to the very letter , and tell my father all ; but separa- tion has made my father strange to me , and it is with fear and trembling I shall await the result . How different was my feeling when , with my own ...
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... keep counsel if one be away , ' as the satirist has well put it . I would also urge upon your friends the necessity of promptness on all money matters . Little Mite , your charming sister , and my beloved wife , will answer for the rest ...
... keep counsel if one be away , ' as the satirist has well put it . I would also urge upon your friends the necessity of promptness on all money matters . Little Mite , your charming sister , and my beloved wife , will answer for the rest ...
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Page 11 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the Lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the Statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 216 - twad blawn its last; The rattling show'rs rose on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd: That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro...
Page 132 - Out, alas! she's cold; Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated. Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Page 43 - 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 12 - ... beauties this world could present to him. And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises ; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers, and stomachs and meat, and content and leisure to go a-fishing.
Page 191 - I was ever worth much — oh! no, far from it! — though striving to do my duty in that station in which it has pleased God to call me.