Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 12Chatto and Windus, 1870 |
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... gave him an opportunity to cheat me . As to the badness of his countenance , that is so much the better . I like to deal with an obvious rogue . The really dangerous subject is your honest fool , who goes on straight enough till he has ...
... gave him an opportunity to cheat me . As to the badness of his countenance , that is so much the better . I like to deal with an obvious rogue . The really dangerous subject is your honest fool , who goes on straight enough till he has ...
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... gave him his opportunity . Had I been at hand to protect my own interests , I do not think his influ- ence could have prevailed against me . ' 6 It is quite natural that you should think that , ' John Saltram said gravely . Yet you may ...
... gave him his opportunity . Had I been at hand to protect my own interests , I do not think his influ- ence could have prevailed against me . ' 6 It is quite natural that you should think that , ' John Saltram said gravely . Yet you may ...
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... gave a cordial welcome to his friend . On the opposite side of the fire - place there was a tall rather grim - looking lady , also in mourning , and with an elaborate head- dress of bugles and ornaments of a feathery and beady nature ...
... gave a cordial welcome to his friend . On the opposite side of the fire - place there was a tall rather grim - looking lady , also in mourning , and with an elaborate head- dress of bugles and ornaments of a feathery and beady nature ...
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... gave a wonderful bright- ness to his face ; and I think I like London in the autumn better than at any other time . One has room to move about . I have been in the country of late because I really do appreciate rural surround- ings ...
... gave a wonderful bright- ness to his face ; and I think I like London in the autumn better than at any other time . One has room to move about . I have been in the country of late because I really do appreciate rural surround- ings ...
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A London Magazine. Adela gave a little impatient sigh . She was thinking how gladly she would have made this man master of her ample fortune ; won- dering whether he would ever claim from her the allegiance she was so ready to give . Mr ...
A London Magazine. Adela gave a little impatient sigh . She was thinking how gladly she would have made this man master of her ample fortune ; won- dering whether he would ever claim from her the allegiance she was so ready to give . Mr ...
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Page 68 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 260 - And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 260 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. SOMERSET. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Page 238 - And he said, I am. Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee : neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place : for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou earnest.
Page 423 - You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest. In my fifteenth autumn, my partner was a bewitching creature, a year younger than myself. My scarcity of English denies me the power of doing her justice in that language, but you know the Scotch idiom: she was a "bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass".
Page 296 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 199 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 225 - In a calm retirement the gay vanity of youth no longer fluttered in her bosom ; she listened to the voice of truth and passion, and I might presume to hope that I had made some impression on a virtuous heart.
Page 255 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 226 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.