Queen MabD. Appleton, 1864 - 476 pages |
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Page 10
... rose to his lips , but hospitality checked it , and it subsided into a sort of impatient and half - muttered growl . " Not a hundred ! -well , then , five hundred , say five hundred , " facetiously added Captain George . " You had ...
... rose to his lips , but hospitality checked it , and it subsided into a sort of impatient and half - muttered growl . " Not a hundred ! -well , then , five hundred , say five hundred , " facetiously added Captain George . " You had ...
Page 12
... rose , and walked out . Mr. Ford saw him to the door . On the last step , Captain George turned round , and nodding with what looked very like drunken solemnity , he said , with much emphasis : 66 ' Deep , Ford , deep - devilishly deep ...
... rose , and walked out . Mr. Ford saw him to the door . On the last step , Captain George turned round , and nodding with what looked very like drunken solemnity , he said , with much emphasis : 66 ' Deep , Ford , deep - devilishly deep ...
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... ; but the furniture , if not as fresh , was as good as new ; a carpet that would still wear many years -for who ever trod on it - spread its faded roses on the floor . The dark velvet curtains seemed to have been just hung 14 QUEEN MAB .
... ; but the furniture , if not as fresh , was as good as new ; a carpet that would still wear many years -for who ever trod on it - spread its faded roses on the floor . The dark velvet curtains seemed to have been just hung 14 QUEEN MAB .
Page 35
... rose to Mr. Ford's lips , but did not pass them . He was not used , whatever his trials were , to have them probed so freely , and Miss Ford had not spared him one sting . His dirty and neglected children , his debts , the insolence of ...
... rose to Mr. Ford's lips , but did not pass them . He was not used , whatever his trials were , to have them probed so freely , and Miss Ford had not spared him one sting . His dirty and neglected children , his debts , the insolence of ...
Page 37
... rose and locked the door ; then he came back to the child , took the letter which bore no direction , and tore it open . A small bundle of silken papers fell out — notes — bank- notes . The blood tingled in his ears ; he picked them up ...
... rose and locked the door ; then he came back to the child , took the letter which bore no direction , and tore it open . A small bundle of silken papers fell out — notes — bank- notes . The blood tingled in his ears ; he picked them up ...
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Page 278 - He began walking up and down the room, with his hands in his pockets, talking aloud, and feeling with his old irritated fingers the two watches which he wore in his two fobs.