A month in Mayo. With miscellaneous papers1876 |
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... 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 bright blue eyes , a light , elastic tread , and ...
... 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 bright blue eyes , a light , elastic tread , and ...
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... considerable distance , lay along the pleasant banks of the river , which , still swollen and turbid from the recent rains , my companion averred would be in fine order for fishing by the afternoon . I cheerfully acquiesced in Larry's ...
... considerable distance , lay along the pleasant banks of the river , which , still swollen and turbid from the recent rains , my companion averred would be in fine order for fishing by the afternoon . I cheerfully acquiesced in Larry's ...
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... considerably elevated , where , from the state of the weather , Larry expected to find the grouse we were in search of . In wet and stormy weather , he said , they went lower , and especially affected the roads , by the sides of which ...
... considerably elevated , where , from the state of the weather , Larry expected to find the grouse we were in search of . In wet and stormy weather , he said , they went lower , and especially affected the roads , by the sides of which ...
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... considerably bothered me ; and when , rejecting Larry's counsel that I should shoot him as he stood , I persuaded him to throw a turf at the defiant old bird , I ignominiously missed him and his partner , to Larry's undisguised ...
... considerably bothered me ; and when , rejecting Larry's counsel that I should shoot him as he stood , I persuaded him to throw a turf at the defiant old bird , I ignominiously missed him and his partner , to Larry's undisguised ...
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... considerable distance along the bank of the river . A wilder or more varied scene of beauty it would be difficult to imagine : the green banks , with scarlet rowan , black alders , and stunted hazels reflected in the dark water , heaps ...
... considerable distance along the bank of the river . A wilder or more varied scene of beauty it would be difficult to imagine : the green banks , with scarlet rowan , black alders , and stunted hazels reflected in the dark water , heaps ...
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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!