A month in Mayo. With miscellaneous papers1876 |
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... fact - and open- ing the door , as he passed , of a plainly , but com- fortably furnished bedroom , with the brief intima- tion , " Your den , my dear boy ! " ushered me into the drawing - that is , the sitting - room , THE LODGE . 7.
... fact - and open- ing the door , as he passed , of a plainly , but com- fortably furnished bedroom , with the brief intima- tion , " Your den , my dear boy ! " ushered me into the drawing - that is , the sitting - room , THE LODGE . 7.
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... fact , a drawback to the perfect harmony of the performance , although Miss O'Hara managed to utilize them as far as practicable . He awoke , though late , all too soon , and conducting me to the door of my bedroom left me , with a ...
... fact , a drawback to the perfect harmony of the performance , although Miss O'Hara managed to utilize them as far as practicable . He awoke , though late , all too soon , and conducting me to the door of my bedroom left me , with a ...
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... 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 this pool Jemmy , the under keeper , was to meet us with 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 this pool Jemmy , the under keeper , was to meet us with the ...
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... fact , the fumes which rose from a sort of pot or caldron beneath which the turf fire was lighted , were sufficient of themselves to affect inconveniently any ordinary brain . His greeting , however , though rough , was , as is always ...
... fact , the fumes which rose from a sort of pot or caldron beneath which the turf fire was lighted , were sufficient of themselves to affect inconveniently any ordinary brain . His greeting , however , though rough , was , as is always ...
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... fact of his seeing every covey which existed for miles around as he drove along . The dogs which were now uncoupled and en- couraged to hunt , were , as I have said , remarkable neither for beauty nor condition , nor did they match as a ...
... fact of his seeing every covey which existed for miles around as he drove along . The dogs which were now uncoupled and en- couraged to hunt , were , as I have said , remarkable neither for beauty nor condition , nor did they match as a ...
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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!