A month in Mayo. With miscellaneous papers1876 |
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... Blake , " whispered I ; " you've got a volume of the Sporting Magazine there , not the- " " " Good enough for him , the blaggard ! " was the re- sponse , and the newly - married convert to teetotalism departed , deeply imbued with the ...
... Blake , " whispered I ; " you've got a volume of the Sporting Magazine there , not the- " " " Good enough for him , the blaggard ! " was the re- sponse , and the newly - married convert to teetotalism departed , deeply imbued with the ...
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... Blake as , " My niece , " was , with- out doubt , considerably my senior - why do boys always fall in love with their grandmothers , whom the rubric forbids them to marry ? -but she was " beautiful exceedingly " ; with golden hair and ...
... Blake as , " My niece , " was , with- out doubt , considerably my senior - why do boys always fall in love with their grandmothers , whom the rubric forbids them to marry ? -but she was " beautiful exceedingly " ; with golden hair and ...
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... Blake , who had signified his satisfaction , not only by words and by beating time to the airs , but occasionally by joining in the melody , had subsided into a sound slumber , and his snores were rather out of tune ; in fact , a ...
... Blake , who had signified his satisfaction , not only by words and by beating time to the airs , but occasionally by joining in the melody , had subsided into a sound slumber , and his snores were rather out of tune ; in fact , a ...
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... Blake already seated at the table . Our English ideas of a breakfast are , after all , very limited ; to under- stand what is meant by the term one must travel northward or westward . For my own part , I had never witnessed a table so ...
... Blake already seated at the table . Our English ideas of a breakfast are , after all , very limited ; to under- stand what is meant by the term one must travel northward or westward . For my own part , I had never witnessed a table so ...
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... Blake called it to the Deadman's Pool , so designated from the fact of a poor starved peasant , who , having been found on the bank there , dead from hunger , lay buried , in unhallowed ground , under a large flat stone hard by . At ...
... Blake called it to the Deadman's Pool , so designated from the fact of a poor starved peasant , who , having been found on the bank there , dead from hunger , lay buried , in unhallowed ground , under a large flat stone hard by . At ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. 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!