Witch Winnie's Mystery, Or, The Old Oak Cabinet: The Story of a King's Daughter

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Dodd, Mead and Company, 1891 - Boarding schools - 395 pages

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Page 333 - We parted ; months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh ; Our meeting was all mirth and laughter. /'For in my .heart's most secret cell There had been many other lodgers : And she was not the ball-room's belle But only—Mrs. Something Rogers.
Page 318 - read : Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord
Page 217 - I never whispered a private affair Within the hearing of cat or mouse, No, not to myself in the closet alone, But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house. Everything came to be known.
Page 375 - I learnt a little algebra, a little Of the mathematics ; brushed with extreme flounce The circle of the sciences, because She misliked women who are frivolous. I learnt : The internal laws Of the Burmese Empire ; by how many feet Mount Chimborazo outsoars Himmeleh: I
Page 355 - an Ahithophel,—now the counsel of Ahithophel which he counselled in those days was as if a man had enquired at the
Page 361 - plain heaven's celibate, And yet earth's clear accepted servitor, A courtly, spiritual Cupid, And fit companion for the like of you; Your gay Abati with the well turned leg, And rose i
Page 375 - I learnt much music, such as would have been As quite impossible in Johnson's day As still it might be wished—fine sleights of hand And unimagined fingering, shuffling off The
Page 84 - of mistake, All were against me. That I knew the first; But knowing also what my duty was, I did it.
Page 341 - betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown.
Page 361 - cross at neck, And silk mask in the pocket of the gown.

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