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Page 38
... held less exalted positions - on Mrs. Weldon herself , for example . It was with this little store of information that Tristrem left her on the Thursday succeeding the dinner , It was meagre indeed , and yet ample enough to afford him ...
... held less exalted positions - on Mrs. Weldon herself , for example . It was with this little store of information that Tristrem left her on the Thursday succeeding the dinner , It was meagre indeed , and yet ample enough to afford him ...
Page 39
... held like a bird's , a trifle to one side . Tristrem gazed at her in a manner that would have mollified a tigress . " I was not bored . I had never heard anyone sing before . " " Yet your friend , Mr. Weldon , tells me that you are very ...
... held like a bird's , a trifle to one side . Tristrem gazed at her in a manner that would have mollified a tigress . " I was not bored . I had never heard anyone sing before . " " Yet your friend , Mr. Weldon , tells me that you are very ...
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... held her hand to him , and Tristrem raised it to his lips and kissed the wrist . " You might as well ask me to increase my stature , " he answered . And presently he dropped the hand which he held and left the house . It was a perfect ...
... held her hand to him , and Tristrem raised it to his lips and kissed the wrist . " You might as well ask me to increase my stature , " he answered . And presently he dropped the hand which he held and left the house . It was a perfect ...
Page 66
... held that the most pleasureable thing imaginable is to awake on a summer morning with the consciousness of being in love . Even in winter the sensation ought not to be disagreeable ; yet when to the consciousness of being in love is ...
... held that the most pleasureable thing imaginable is to awake on a summer morning with the consciousness of being in love . Even in winter the sensation ought not to be disagreeable ; yet when to the consciousness of being in love is ...
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... held a promise . The horizon was a prayer fulfilled . He saw grief collapse and joy enthroned . From bird and blossom he caught the incommunicable words of love . And when from some new witchery he at last awoke , he smiled - the real ...
... held a promise . The horizon was a prayer fulfilled . He saw grief collapse and joy enthroned . From bird and blossom he caught the incommunicable words of love . And when from some new witchery he at last awoke , he smiled - the real ...
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Page 105 - No person having a husband, wife, child or parent, shall, by his or her last will and testament, devise or bequeath to any benevolent, charitable, literary, scientific, religious or missionary society, association or corporation, in trust or otherwise, more than one-half part of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of one-half, and no more.
Page 106 - ... no such devise or bequest shall be valid in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator.