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Page 287 - Long mourn'd his band whom none could mourn beside; And fair the monument they gave his bride: For him they raise not the .recording stone— His death yet dubious, deeds too widely known; He left a Corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
Page 1 - Celui qui met un frein a la fureur des flots Sait aussi des méchants arrêter les complots.
Page 90 - I am born to it, Miss Gordon.'" Caroline counters by telling her that, while "born" to Americanness, she is "hardly bred to it; we caught you young, and we have spoiled you for ever as an American lady." Her lessons in civility, it seems, have been lessons against Americanness. "Emily...
Page 301 - ... saw in such a marriage, Mr. Gordon and Lady Darcy were united a very few weeks after they had attended Emily to the altar. But if this was ridiculous, what will be said to the narrative being brought to its conclusion, and the lovely Caroline still free? Is it that I have forgotten my favourite ? Far from it.
Page 94 - But he found their whole manner changed, and it was perfectly evident that the presence of ladies rendered it impossible in their opinion, to continue the conversation in the same strain.
Page 101 - She was quite unconscious of the extreme awkwardness of an English Earl marrying a little creature, picked up in the wilds of America, and had not the slightest notion of the embarrassment likely to arrive, when the coach-maker's heraldic artist should ask, what arms were to.
Page 297 - The first long evening, ay, and despite pale faces and fatigue, the greater part of the night, was passed in that delightful confusion of questions asked, and answers not waited for, of narratives began, but never ended; of tears that celebrate excess of joy, and smiles that speak of sorrows past, which marks the perfection of contentment, setting ceremony, order, and common sense at defiance.