Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 12Chatto and Windus, 1870 |
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... gone , or when he was likely to return . He was one of the most uncer- tingest gentlemen she had to do for ; and he had been out of town a great deal lately ; which was not to be wondered at , considering the trying hot weather , when ...
... gone , or when he was likely to return . He was one of the most uncer- tingest gentlemen she had to do for ; and he had been out of town a great deal lately ; which was not to be wondered at , considering the trying hot weather , when ...
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... gone to strangers . I wonder whether he had much money , or whether he was really as poor as he made himself out . It's difficult to say . I know I made him bleed pretty freely , at one time and another , be- fore he turned rusty ; and ...
... gone to strangers . I wonder whether he had much money , or whether he was really as poor as he made himself out . It's difficult to say . I know I made him bleed pretty freely , at one time and another , be- fore he turned rusty ; and ...
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... gone , the old man took the candle from the mantelpiece , and held it up before the bearded face of the traveller . ' Yes , yes , yes , ' he said slowly ; at last ! It is you , Percival , my only son . I thought you were dead long ago ...
... gone , the old man took the candle from the mantelpiece , and held it up before the bearded face of the traveller . ' Yes , yes , yes , ' he said slowly ; at last ! It is you , Percival , my only son . I thought you were dead long ago ...
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... gone on a shopping expedition in her kinswoman's dashing brougham . The pretty little widow received Gilbert very graciously ; but there was a slight shade of melancholy in her manner , a pensiveness which softened and refined her ...
... gone on a shopping expedition in her kinswoman's dashing brougham . The pretty little widow received Gilbert very graciously ; but there was a slight shade of melancholy in her manner , a pensiveness which softened and refined her ...
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... gone elsewhere , and his quest would have to begin afresh . But he fancied that he could hardly fail to obtain some information as to their plan of life , if he could find the place where they had stayed after their marriage . His own ...
... gone elsewhere , and his quest would have to begin afresh . But he fancied that he could hardly fail to obtain some information as to their plan of life , if he could find the place where they had stayed after their marriage . His own ...
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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.