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... mind telling you it was Mademoiselle Chrétien herself that I had in view . After all , why should I marry ? Hein ? My good mother takes care of my little son ; my father - in - law is much attached to him ; I have an excellent ...
... mind telling you it was Mademoiselle Chrétien herself that I had in view . After all , why should I marry ? Hein ? My good mother takes care of my little son ; my father - in - law is much attached to him ; I have an excellent ...
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... mind , which had come to him no one knew how or why . He was sensitive , artistic , appreciative . He was vain and diffident ; he was generous and selfish ; he was warm - hearted , and yet he was too much a man of the world not to have ...
... mind , which had come to him no one knew how or why . He was sensitive , artistic , appreciative . He was vain and diffident ; he was generous and selfish ; he was warm - hearted , and yet he was too much a man of the world not to have ...
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... mind which seemed to bring him to life somehow , and force him into independence and self - denial ; and Charles Butler , his eldest uncle , used to make jokes at him , or occasionally burst out in a fume when Dick gravely assured him ...
... mind which seemed to bring him to life somehow , and force him into independence and self - denial ; and Charles Butler , his eldest uncle , used to make jokes at him , or occasionally burst out in a fume when Dick gravely assured him ...
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... mind that it was best to go , and this waiting about and lingering was miserable work . Besides , he had received a letter from a friend , who was looking out for him at a certain modest little hotel at Caen , well known to them both ...
... mind that it was best to go , and this waiting about and lingering was miserable work . Besides , he had received a letter from a friend , who was looking out for him at a certain modest little hotel at Caen , well known to them both ...
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... mind for one last parting effort . " My dear fren ' ! good voyage , " he said in English , waving his Panama , as Dick drove off to the station . M. Fontaine accomplished his business , and jogged back to Petitport in the diligence that ...
... mind for one last parting effort . " My dear fren ' ! good voyage , " he said in English , waving his Panama , as Dick drove off to the station . M. Fontaine accomplished his business , and jogged back to Petitport in the diligence that ...
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Algy asked aunt Bayeux Beamish began bright Caen Caerleon Calvados carriage Catherine George Catherine looked Catherine's châlet Charles Butler château coming cried Curé dark dear Dick Dick's Dominique door drawing-room dress Eaton Square Ernestine eyes face flowers Fontaine's garden gentle girl glance governess grey hand happy head heard heart husband instant Jean Josette Justine kitchen knew Lambswold laughing light listening little Catherine little governess Madame de Tracy Madame Fontaine Madame Mérard Mademoiselle marriage Marthe Miss George Monsieur Fontaine morning mother Nanine never old Chrétien old lady once passed passionate movement Petitpère Petitport poor little pretty Reine Reine's Richard Richard Butler round seemed silent sitting smiling sometimes sort speak standing stood strange sudden suddenly sweet talk tell things told Toto turned village voice walked window woman wonder young
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!