Ralph the heir. With illustr. by F.A. Fraser1871 |
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Page 64 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 398 - No, saar; he go away at last!' said Adolphe, with a melancholy shake of his head. 'Has he done much harm?' 'The Apollo gone! — and he had romp-steak, — and onions, — and a pipe. Vat vas I to do? I hope he vill never come again.' And so also did Mr. Newton hope that Neefit would never come again. He was going to dine with Lady Eardham, the wife of a Berkshire Baronet, who had three fair daughters. At this period of his life he found the aristocracy of Berkshire and Hampshire to be very civil...
Page 421 - I take to be the real fashion of heaven-made marriages ; or should be brought into that close link and loving bondage to each other by thought, selection, and decision. That the heavenly mode prevails the oftenest there can hardly be a doubt. It takes years to make a friendship ; but a marriage may be settled in a week, — in an hour.
Page 152 - The idea of purity of election at Percycross made him feel very sick. It was an idea which he hated with his whole heart. There was to him something absolutely mean and ignoble in the idea of a man coming forward to represent a borough in Parliament without paying the regular fees ... It might be all very well in Manchester and such-like disagreeable places.
Page 360 - ... estranged me from them so entirely. Anne's reply, given with an arch look and tone, was very nice, "Indeed, Jeannie, you need not have been afraid of our setting ourselves to reform you; it is plain enough that nothing short of God's own grace can do that, but I won't despair that a time may come, though I am not such a fool as to think that I can hasten it.
Page 303 - But the men are many who see the beauty, who adopt the task, who promise themselves the triumph, and then never struggle at all. The task is never abandoned; but days go by and weeks; and then months and years - and nothing is done. The dream of youth becomes the doubt of middle life, and then the despair of age.
Page 427 - ... which elevated sentiment prevails, and gratified by being made to feel that the elevated sentiments described are exactly his own.... It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceals his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. No man or woman with a conscience, --no man or woman with intellect sufficient to produce amusement, can go on from year to year spinning stories without the desire of teaching; with no ambition of influencing readers for their good.
Page 41 - ... his father. Upon the whole, though of course there must be a sacrifice of money at first, Neefit thought that he saw his way. Mr. Newton, too, had been very civil to his girl, — not simply making to her foolish flattering little speeches, but treating her, — so thought Neefit, — exactly as a high-bred gentleman would treat the lady of his thoughts. It was a high ambition ; but Neefit thought that there might possibly be a way to success. Mrs. Neefit had been a good helpmate to her husband,...
Page 196 - Purity! Purity!' he repeated. 'They're a going on that way, Trigger, that the country soon won't be fit for a man to live in, And what's the meaning of it all? It's just this, — that folks wants what they wants without paying for it. I hate Purity, I do. I hate the very smell of it. It stinks. When I see the chaps as come here and talk of Purity, I know they mean that nothing ain't to be as it used to be. Nobody is to trust no one. There ain't to be nothing warm, nor friendly, nor comfortable any...
Page 59 - ... was a tuft of beard, which he called an imperial. It was the glory of Ontario Moggs to be a politician; — it was his ambition to be a poet; — it was his nature to be a lover; — it was his disgrace to be a bootmaker. Dependent on a stern father, and aware that it behoved him to earn his bread, he could not but obey; but he groaned under this servitude to trade, and was only happy when speaking at his debating club, held at the Cheshire Cheese, or when basking in the beauty of Polly Neefit....