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... windows and weathercocks , and muslin curtains and wooden balconies ; and there is a sort of embankment or terrace - walk half - way to the sea . This was Madame Fontaine's châlet , the people told me - her husband had left it to her in ...
... windows and weathercocks , and muslin curtains and wooden balconies ; and there is a sort of embankment or terrace - walk half - way to the sea . This was Madame Fontaine's châlet , the people told me - her husband had left it to her in ...
Page 22
... windows of the old place already beginning to light up . could also see a distant speck of light in the plain , shining ... window as a signal to Dominique and her grandfather that the supper was ready ? " It is as well I am going to ...
... windows of the old place already beginning to light up . could also see a distant speck of light in the plain , shining ... window as a signal to Dominique and her grandfather that the supper was ready ? " It is as well I am going to ...
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... windows . The servants clustering round the gates , after their work was over , would greet the drivers of the passing vehicles . As the diligence pulled up , something would be handed down , or some one would get out of the interior ...
... windows . The servants clustering round the gates , after their work was over , would greet the drivers of the passing vehicles . As the diligence pulled up , something would be handed down , or some one would get out of the interior ...
Page 27
... windows ; carved lintels , heads peeping from the high casements , voices calling , pigeons flying and perching , flowers hanging from topmost stories , and then over all these the upward spires and the ivy - grown towers of the old ...
... windows ; carved lintels , heads peeping from the high casements , voices calling , pigeons flying and perching , flowers hanging from topmost stories , and then over all these the upward spires and the ivy - grown towers of the old ...
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... windows behind , a wonder of carved stonework , of pillars , of polished stems and brackets . It was a silent little nook , with the deep sky shining over- head , and the great black shadows striking and marking out the lovely ornaments ...
... windows behind , a wonder of carved stonework , of pillars , of polished stems and brackets . It was a silent little nook , with the deep sky shining over- head , and the great black shadows striking and marking out the lovely ornaments ...
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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!