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Page 36
I am ready to try , " I answered ; but my heart was faint within me . The Misses
Johnson had once been governesses in private families , and at length , after
years of toil and economy , had saved sufficient to begin an establishment of their
own .
I am ready to try , " I answered ; but my heart was faint within me . The Misses
Johnson had once been governesses in private families , and at length , after
years of toil and economy , had saved sufficient to begin an establishment of their
own .
Page 46
Will you not then feel that you have neglected the first business of life — the only
business that you will care to have transacted , when heart and flesh are failing ,
and the hand of death is upon you ? ” He spoke gravely and solemnly , but very ...
Will you not then feel that you have neglected the first business of life — the only
business that you will care to have transacted , when heart and flesh are failing ,
and the hand of death is upon you ? ” He spoke gravely and solemnly , but very ...
Page 59
I accosted her with a beating heart , and then she drew me towards her , and
saying , in peculiarly quiet tones , “ My niece , Millicent , " kissed me gravely on
my forehead . Her manner was rather proud than cold ; rather stately than
reserved ...
I accosted her with a beating heart , and then she drew me towards her , and
saying , in peculiarly quiet tones , “ My niece , Millicent , " kissed me gravely on
my forehead . Her manner was rather proud than cold ; rather stately than
reserved ...
Page 55
I accosted her with a beating heart , and then she drew me towards her , and
saying , in peculiarly quiet tones , “ My niece , Millicent , " kissed me gravely on
my forehead . Her manner was rather proud than cold ; rather stately than
reserved ...
I accosted her with a beating heart , and then she drew me towards her , and
saying , in peculiarly quiet tones , “ My niece , Millicent , " kissed me gravely on
my forehead . Her manner was rather proud than cold ; rather stately than
reserved ...
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Yet more ! the billows and the depths have MOBE : High hearts and brave are
gathered to thy breast : They hear not now the ... Still , ere I left Lunechester , I
had learned the principal thoroughfares in the town by heart ; I had seen the
parish ...
Yet more ! the billows and the depths have MOBE : High hearts and brave are
gathered to thy breast : They hear not now the ... Still , ere I left Lunechester , I
had learned the principal thoroughfares in the town by heart ; I had seen the
parish ...
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Page 344 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition , sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 127 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.
Page 371 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life...
Page 61 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 262 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died.
Page 324 - EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Page 127 - I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Page 114 - Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams 495 Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
Page 61 - The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly : but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier.
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| Title | Millicent Kendrick; or, The search after happiness |
| Author | Emma Jane Worboise |
| Publisher | James Clarke & Company, 1862 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 442 pages |
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