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Page 412 - And he said unto another, Follow -me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead : but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Page 377 - There are strange vicissitudes in business! Smooth your way to the head, through the heart The way of reason is a good one; but it is commonly something longer, and perhaps not so sure.
Page 180 - ... Yet it would not do to seem to flinch. She summoned up her courage nobly. ' Sir,' she answered, ' even if these were not the weakest, most transparent falsehoods, I have little to fear from. you. My father or brother or both will be here to-morrow, and punish all this insolence.' ' Foolish girl,' said he, ' you don't know what you are saying. Do you think I should be so deuced, so poor a fool, as to let myself be foiled by a girl of eighteen ? Look at those. All that you write will share the...
Page 187 - Idola's sitting-room, and knocked at the door. There was no answer. He knocked again and again, and then ventured to enter.
Page 99 - He had paid his landlady every farthing, and left, moreover, a large portmanteau of good clothes in his lodgings. He had nothing to encumber him, but a little black carpet-bag at his side. He could therefore afford to indulge his favourite propensities. The waiter, the long lugubrious patient waiter, was lugubriously waiting opposite to him. Mr. Marley had often to that mournful waiter appeared in the light of a snob. That mournful waiter had often known Mr.
Page 121 - Martin was very kind to her, but it was so different. It was only last night that he had come home very late, quite intoxicated, and she could not like him after that. Then she thought long, long, and fondly about the young squire. She lived over again those few happy weeks, when he came day after day to teach her something, to talk to her of things beautiful and good and hopeful, even at times to lay her head upon his shoulder.
Page 133 - Howard,' said the young man, astonished at this intelligence, ' that Miss Trevelyan left in the company of a gentleman?' ' I commissioned a friend of mine to bring her to my roof,' answered the baronet very stiffly. ' May I ask if this was Captain Marley ? ' ' Yes, sir, it was,' he replied testily ; ' but that has nothing to do with the matter.
Page 324 - Now for an inventory of features. "Apart from the expression of mingled sadness and pride" — you must have a little pride in a female character, it is the only fault allowed — " the features were in themselves of classic regularity." ' ' That's the second classic. I'll be hanged if I read your novel ! I had enough classics at Oxford.
Page 32 - Popham returned to the office. ' You had better take the cheque to Watkins at once,' said he. ' It is a comfort to get so many shares off at a blow — eh ? ' Daisy looked at his watch. ' I wish you would take it for me to Watkins. I see I have only half-an-hour to get down to the station in.
Page 140 - Captain Marley is mentioned, but in terms which I must not repeat.' ' Oh, oh ! then it must be seen,' cried two or three together. ' Gentlemen, it cannot be seen. But if you will tell me frankly what you have heard to lead to this examination of me, I shall be able to judge whether I ought to give you the information about Captain Marley here sent to me.