Gleason's Monthly Companion, Volume 3F. Gleason, 1874 |
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... door of his chamber in the left wing , threw himself on an arm - chair before the bright fire , and thought of the happy evening and- Minnie Fitzroy . He had not sat long thus , when the hall clock striking a quarter to two reminded him ...
... door of his chamber in the left wing , threw himself on an arm - chair before the bright fire , and thought of the happy evening and- Minnie Fitzroy . He had not sat long thus , when the hall clock striking a quarter to two reminded him ...
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... door in the panelling , near the bed's head , through which came both shrieks and figure . " " But , for goodness sake , George , why ever should human beings take the trouble to act thus ? What good could it do them ? " " No doubt this ...
... door in the panelling , near the bed's head , through which came both shrieks and figure . " " But , for goodness sake , George , why ever should human beings take the trouble to act thus ? What good could it do them ? " " No doubt this ...
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... door , with angry words , the poor organ boy . HILDEGARDE , THE PROFESSOR'S BRIDE . A CHRISTMAS TALE OF GERMANY . BY MARY W. JANVRIN . CHAPTER I. Twas the evening before Christmas . The air was keen and frosty ; The Hartz Mountains were ...
... door , with angry words , the poor organ boy . HILDEGARDE , THE PROFESSOR'S BRIDE . A CHRISTMAS TALE OF GERMANY . BY MARY W. JANVRIN . CHAPTER I. Twas the evening before Christmas . The air was keen and frosty ; The Hartz Mountains were ...
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... door and lifted the latch , looking out into the night . " Here - what can that be ? " exclaimed Johan , stooping to lift a large wicker basket from the door step , where it stood , plainly seen in the white moonlight , and bearing it ...
... door and lifted the latch , looking out into the night . " Here - what can that be ? " exclaimed Johan , stooping to lift a large wicker basket from the door step , where it stood , plainly seen in the white moonlight , and bearing it ...
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... door . Sometimes it would be hung from the latch string outside - sometimes a knock would be heard , but before any one could reach the door , the bearer would have vanished , and the purse would be found upon the threshold . Not a ...
... door . Sometimes it would be hung from the latch string outside - sometimes a knock would be heard , but before any one could reach the door , the bearer would have vanished , and the purse would be found upon the threshold . Not a ...
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Page 228 - BE kind to each other! The night's coming on, When friend and when brother Perchance may be gone ! Then midst our dejection, How sweet to have earned The blest recollection Of kindness — returned!
Page 268 - ... vapour, which deprived him of the power of proceeding, or even calling aloud to their destroyers. He tottered back to where he had left his bride, and sinking down on the earth beside her, felt a horrid sense of despair weigh down his energies, like cowardice. Again he arose, and attempted to force his way through the entrance, and again he was compelled to relinquish the effort. He cried aloud to them — offered to surrender — and entreated that they would at least have mercy on his companion....
Page 95 - A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action : it is calculation realized ; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice : it is foreseeing consequences, and guarding against them ; it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for them.
Page 238 - ... they must be shown the door directly. 'We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna, or a Bonaparte. We should not like to be the second Duke of Wellington, nor Charles Dickens, jr. It is a terrible thing, one would say, to a mind of honorable feeling, to be pointed out as somebody's son, or uncle, or granddaughter, as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your...
Page 90 - DUELLING, as a punishment, is absurd ; because it is an equal chance, whether the punishment fall upon the offender, or the person offended. Nor is it much better as a reparation : it being difficult to explain in what the satisfaction consists, or how it tends to undo the injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained. The truth is, it is not considered as either.
Page 94 - The trees shed their blossoms over our young heads, the flowers on the brink seem to offer themselves to our young hands; we are happy in hope, and we grasp eagerly at the beauties around us — but the stream hurries on, and still our hands are empty. Our course in youth and manhood is along a wider and deeper flood, amid objects more striking and magnificent.
Page 204 - A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and in constant motion without getting on a jot; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees into nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers.
Page 264 - Three figures remained in a group near the door, as if listening for the sounds of pursuit ; while the revellers hurried together like startled fawns, and gazed, with countenances indicative of strong interest or wild alarm, upon the baffled warriors. " Cormac !" cried the Knight, perceiving the bridegroom among the company, " my good fellow, I missed you in an unlucky hour. These English dogs have worried us from our hold, and are still hot upon our scent. I have only time to bid my stout soldiers...
Page 90 - Other animals have neither notion nor ability to act in a similar manner, and therefore swim naturally. When a man falls into deep water, he will rise to the surface, and will continue there if he does not elevate his hands.
Page 144 - Many a child goes astray, not because there is a want of prayer or virtue at home, but simply because home lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as much as flowers and sunbeams.