Who Will Save Her. A Novel1874 |
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... got her eyes on the float , and would bark if it moved . " There was a pause - a short one - broken by the rector . " Peter , I don't like the way you're bringing up that dog - it's not Chris- tian . 6 Who Will Save Her ?
... got her eyes on the float , and would bark if it moved . " There was a pause - a short one - broken by the rector . " Peter , I don't like the way you're bringing up that dog - it's not Chris- tian . 6 Who Will Save Her ?
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... There ! " he said , as , with glistening eyes , he surveyed his prize , which was still quivering with life in the sweet meadow grass . " Can anybody have two opinions about angling , Peter ? " " No one - ' cept , possibly , the fish ...
... There ! " he said , as , with glistening eyes , he surveyed his prize , which was still quivering with life in the sweet meadow grass . " Can anybody have two opinions about angling , Peter ? " " No one - ' cept , possibly , the fish ...
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... There's not a page of it we haven't travelled over a hundred times together . Fine lad ! -noble lad ! " " There couldn't be a better , " was Sandy Peter's ready response . " I loved him like my own son , ” said the rector . " Bless him ...
... There's not a page of it we haven't travelled over a hundred times together . Fine lad ! -noble lad ! " " There couldn't be a better , " was Sandy Peter's ready response . " I loved him like my own son , ” said the rector . " Bless him ...
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... there's a shil- ling to get something to wash it down with . " So saying , the rector , thoroughly preoc- cupied ... there are many worse people in the world than you . " Peter grinned . " Stick firm to that conviction , 18 Who Will Save ...
... there's a shil- ling to get something to wash it down with . " So saying , the rector , thoroughly preoc- cupied ... there are many worse people in the world than you . " Peter grinned . " Stick firm to that conviction , 18 Who Will Save ...
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... there , poking your nose into every- thing that does not concern you . " " Oh ! " Peter was about to enter into a virtuous disclaimer , but the rector cut him short . " What have you heard about these new- comers at the Abbey ...
... there , poking your nose into every- thing that does not concern you . " " Oh ! " Peter was about to enter into a virtuous disclaimer , but the rector cut him short . " What have you heard about these new- comers at the Abbey ...
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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...
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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.