Faith Gartney's girlhood and A summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's life, by the author of 'The Gayworthys'. |
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ain't answered asked Aunt Faith Aunt Henderson baby beautiful bonnet carpet-bag child comfortable coming Cousin Delight cried Cross Corners Dakie Thayne door dream dress Elinor eyes face Faith Gartney father feel Gartney's Gimp girl glad glance Glory McWhirk gone Graywacke green Grubbling Hadden hair half hand happy head heart Hendie Jeannie Josselyn Kinnicutt knew lady Leslie Goldthwaite Linceford little rid little rid hin live look Margaret minute Mishaumok Miss Craydocke Miss Faith Miss Henderson Miss Sampson morning mother never night nurse once Paul Rushleigh perhaps pleasant pretty quiet Roger Armstrong round Saxon seemed side Sin Saxon smile somehow soul spoke stood strange summer sure talk tell There's things Thoresby thought told took turned waiting walked Wharne window woman wonder words young
Popular passages
Page 76 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, •An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 114 - MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet...
Page 11 - Rouse to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's happiness shalt know, — Shalt bless the earth while in the world above, The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow ; The seed that in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave, with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits divine in heaven's immortal bowers.
Page 108 - Take patience, labor, to their heart and hand, From thy hand and thy heart and thy brave cheer, And God's grace fructify through thee to all. The least flower, with a brimming cup may stand And share its dewdrop with another near.
Page 178 - And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, — Round our restlessness, His rest.
Page 38 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 169 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places...
Page 27 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 85 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Page 12 - ... suspended life, and were the first sensations to stir there when that mysterious life flashed back along its channels, and brought a light more subtle than the mere sunshine that through the easterly windows was flooding all her room with its silent arousal. Light, and music, and a sense of an unexamined, half-remembered joy, filled her being and embraced her at her waking on this New Year's Day. A moment she lay in a passive, unthinking delight; and then her first full and distinct thought shaped...