Thornwell Abbas, by Grant Lloyd, Volume 1S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876 |
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Page 103
... Charlie Sowerby . " " Sowerby ! Oh , yes ! His mother's one of the most charming women I ever met . Is he like her ? " " I don't know . I never saw her . Old Sowerby's a great swell among bookish people . I saw him once for five minutes ...
... Charlie Sowerby . " " Sowerby ! Oh , yes ! His mother's one of the most charming women I ever met . Is he like her ? " " I don't know . I never saw her . Old Sowerby's a great swell among bookish people . I saw him once for five minutes ...
Page 121
... Charlie Sowerby - it was perhaps three quarters of a year later than our last mention of him , to a large grown - up evening party at his mother's . The Sowerbys had moved from Woburn Place to a more fashionable region . Not that you ...
... Charlie Sowerby - it was perhaps three quarters of a year later than our last mention of him , to a large grown - up evening party at his mother's . The Sowerbys had moved from Woburn Place to a more fashionable region . Not that you ...
Page 122
... he received . The room was half full when they entered , and seemed a dazzle of light . " This is my friend Pike , mother , " said Charlie , looking far shyer than Walter himself . " Oh , that's so good of him ! You 122 THORNWELL ABBAS .
... he received . The room was half full when they entered , and seemed a dazzle of light . " This is my friend Pike , mother , " said Charlie , looking far shyer than Walter himself . " Oh , that's so good of him ! You 122 THORNWELL ABBAS .
Page 123
... Charlie , show your friend my photo- graph - book . " And before Walter could look round , Mrs. Sowerby was busy welcoming another new - comer . These sixteen years had taken away her girlish freshness and prettiness ; but they had left ...
... Charlie , show your friend my photo- graph - book . " And before Walter could look round , Mrs. Sowerby was busy welcoming another new - comer . These sixteen years had taken away her girlish freshness and prettiness ; but they had left ...
Page 124
... Charlie seat himself at his side , and turn over the oft - times turned carte - de- visite book . Walter could do nothing but watch that bewitching figure in blue silk and white lace , gliding about the room , and hate every one with ...
... Charlie seat himself at his side , and turn over the oft - times turned carte - de- visite book . Walter could do nothing but watch that bewitching figure in blue silk and white lace , gliding about the room , and hate every one with ...
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Page 13 - She sketched ; the vale, the wood, the beach, Grew lovelier from her pencil's shading : She botanized; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She warbled Handel ; it was grand ; She made the Catalani jealous : She touched the organ; I could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows.
Page 190 - The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Page 203 - O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength : before I go hence, and be no more seen.
Page 113 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 23 - The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day; But glory remains when their lights fade away! Begin, ye tormentors! your threats are in vain, For the son of Alknomook shall never complain.
Page 13 - Well fill'd with all an album's glories; Paintings of butterflies, and Rome, Patterns for trimmings, Persian stories; Soft songs to Julia's cockatoo, Fierce odes to Famine and to Slaughter, And autographs of Prince Leboo, And recipes for elder-water.
Page 29 - Yet is it a talent of trust, a loan to be rendered back with interest; A delight, but redolent of care ; honey-sweet, but lacking not the bitter.
Page 97 - ... unwithered cheek, Thy temples fringed with locks of gleaming white, And head that droops because the soul is meek, Thee with the welcome Snowdrop I compare ; That child of winter, prompting thoughts that climb From desolation toward the genial prime ; Or with the Moon conquering earth's misty air, And filling more and more with crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night.
Page 147 - Your charms would make me true. To you no soul shall bear deceit, No stranger offer wrong; But friends in all the aged you'll meet, And lovers in the young. But when they learn that you have blest Another with your heart, They'll bid aspiring passion rest...
Page 205 - She loves her fire, her cottage-home : yet o'er the moorland will she roam in weather rough and bleak; and, when against the wind she strains, O might I kiss the mountain rains that sparkle on her cheek ! Take all that's mine beneath the moon...