Farnorth, Volume 2Chapman & Hall, 1866 |
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Page 11
... pretty sure her manner to this " babil- leuse impitoyable , " as she calls her , would be quite sufficiently emphatic . Mr. Harding sat by Mary Snowe , and the anxious lady asked him some questions about Dr. Halley's professional ...
... pretty sure her manner to this " babil- leuse impitoyable , " as she calls her , would be quite sufficiently emphatic . Mr. Harding sat by Mary Snowe , and the anxious lady asked him some questions about Dr. Halley's professional ...
Page 19
... pretty favourite of a want of decision and strength of character ; but I think if they had been placed in similar circumstances , they might not possibly have behaved with more consistency . The poor little maid is smarting from the ...
... pretty favourite of a want of decision and strength of character ; but I think if they had been placed in similar circumstances , they might not possibly have behaved with more consistency . The poor little maid is smarting from the ...
Page 23
... pretty face , and her kind heart , and her one thousand pounds to recommend her , and Archibald may at any moment become Rector of Slippersly ; he might really have looked much higher , his sisters think . If the Curate had been ...
... pretty face , and her kind heart , and her one thousand pounds to recommend her , and Archibald may at any moment become Rector of Slippersly ; he might really have looked much higher , his sisters think . If the Curate had been ...
Page 24
... pretty Sophy's devotion . Mrs. Jellybags has really performed wonders ; the dinner she has prepared is most creditable to her , and the Miss Middletons unbend a little as they aristocratically dispose of the savoury soup and delicately ...
... pretty Sophy's devotion . Mrs. Jellybags has really performed wonders ; the dinner she has prepared is most creditable to her , and the Miss Middletons unbend a little as they aristocratically dispose of the savoury soup and delicately ...
Page 29
... bride , and the bride to the Curate , but I don't think he has given any- thing else . Zoé Harding's pretty face and elegant dress shed a lustre around , and rivet the admiring Madame and The buxom attention of the Miss Middletons .
... bride , and the bride to the Curate , but I don't think he has given any- thing else . Zoé Harding's pretty face and elegant dress shed a lustre around , and rivet the admiring Madame and The buxom attention of the Miss Middletons .
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Page 135 - Hamlet with the part of the Prince of Denmark omitted, for so far I have said nothing whatever about technical education.
Page 55 - ... this little girl with me to your mother, Edward, that she may question her, if she wishes it, about poor Michael, and I wish you to go with us, my dear boy ; it is better that your poor mother should have you with her." " You are going to tell mother ?" said the boy with a shudder. " Yes, Edward ! — it must be done, and the sooner it is over the better. Your mother is a good woman, and a pious Christian, my dear boy. She will know and feel that all that can befall her is the will of God ; and...
Page 136 - The autocrat, encouraged by impunity and the weakness of the great Powers of Europe, would employ himself in making preparations for another and still more formidable aggression upon his neighbours. I repeat that it is impossible now that the war can be averted consistently with England's honour.
Page 127 - You may depend upon it that now is the time for resistance ; now is the time for the powers of Western and Central Europe to form an alliance with Turkey, and so combine to punish the daring bigot who imperils the best interests of civilization to feed his miserable vanity and insatiable ambition.
Page 128 - He pretends that it is not the lust of conquest which urges him to attempt the supremacy of his church and the expulsion of the Mussulmans from Europe. He seeks to hide the bloody sword of ambition beneath the robe of the fanatic. It is false...
Page 251 - It is a very long time since we have had such a funeral in Farnorth as we shall see to-day. Sparkles has made all the arrangements, and I think they will do him credit. After you, Sir Mortimer," the doctor added, courteously, as he wrestled helplessly with his stiff black gloves.