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... and busy with a fishing smack which they had dragged up high and dry , and safe from the water . Presently one of the men came plodding up over the shingle , and I asked him if he wanted his boat . " Even if I wanted it , I should not.
... and busy with a fishing smack which they had dragged up high and dry , and safe from the water . Presently one of the men came plodding up over the shingle , and I asked him if he wanted his boat . " Even if I wanted it , I should not.
Page 12
... asked Butler , glancing at the spruce figure beside him . The maire looked conscious , and buttoned his coat . " I once contemplated some proposals , " he said , " to a person who was well - off , and who might have made an amiable ...
... asked Butler , glancing at the spruce figure beside him . The maire looked conscious , and buttoned his coat . " I once contemplated some proposals , " he said , " to a person who was well - off , and who might have made an amiable ...
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... asked himself ; " dissatisfied , out of pocket and temper ? Why was he unhappy now when matters were beginning to brighten , and one more chance offered itself for him to retrieve the past ? " He had a terror lest the future should only ...
... asked himself ; " dissatisfied , out of pocket and temper ? Why was he unhappy now when matters were beginning to brighten , and one more chance offered itself for him to retrieve the past ? " He had a terror lest the future should only ...
Page 24
... asked Madame Nicholas if she was going to the fair at Creuilly , and if she had reason to believe that there would be as much amusement there this year as the last . He talked to Madame Binaud of the concert in the church the week ...
... asked Madame Nicholas if she was going to the fair at Creuilly , and if she had reason to believe that there would be as much amusement there this year as the last . He talked to Madame Binaud of the concert in the church the week ...
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... asked himself . Did he love the country for its own sake , or only for the sake of the people he left there ? But the diligence was banging and rattling over the Bayeux stones by this time , and it was no use asking himself any more ...
... asked himself . Did he love the country for its own sake , or only for the sake of the people he left there ? But the diligence was banging and rattling over the Bayeux stones by this time , and it was no use asking himself any more ...
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Popular passages
Page 148 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone ; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Page 221 - So each shall mourn, in life's advance, Dear hopes, dear friends, untimely killed ; Shall grieve for many a forfeit chance, And longing passion unfulfilled. Amen ! whatever fate be sent, Pray God the heart may kindly glow, Although the head with cares be bent, And whitened with the winter snow. Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart.
Page 135 - Out of the eater came forth meat; out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 9 - Among the waste and lumber of the shore, Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets, Anchors of rusty fluke, and boats updrawn...
Page 73 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 87 - And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die...
Page 293 - Here, work enough to watch The Master work, and catch Hints of the proper craft, tricks of the tool's true play.
Page 104 - That's free to give, or to recall. This crowns his feast with wine and wit: Who brought him to that mirth and state? His betters, see, below him sit, Or hunger hopeless at the gate. Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel To spurn the rags of Lazarus?
Page 205 - TT'ORGET not yet the tried intent -*- Of such a truth as I have meant ; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet...
Page 206 - FORGET not yet the tried intent Of such a truth as I have meant; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet! Forget not yet when first began The weary life ye know, since when The suit, the service, none tell can; Forget not yet ! Forget not yet the great assays, The cruel wrong, the scornful ways, The painful patience in delays, Forget not yet!