All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1890 |
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as soon as you like . I will see what can be done for you . Good night . I hope you will soon be all right ; and don't forget moderation . " Mr. Kestell lifted the black bag , and brought it to the bedside . " Where shall I find them ...
as soon as you like . I will see what can be done for you . Good night . I hope you will soon be all right ; and don't forget moderation . " Mr. Kestell lifted the black bag , and brought it to the bedside . " Where shall I find them ...
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... soon after Lady Cecil's marriage . This unexpected change in his circumstances gave him the means of in- dulging his taste for travel and adventure . He had spent the last five years in wander- ing in foreign countries , and had come ...
... soon after Lady Cecil's marriage . This unexpected change in his circumstances gave him the means of in- dulging his taste for travel and adventure . He had spent the last five years in wander- ing in foreign countries , and had come ...
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... soon found out their object — a pale , fair girl , who acted as organist , and who had consequently sat with her back turned to the congregation , during the earlier part of the service . She was quite a young girl , not more than ...
... soon found out their object — a pale , fair girl , who acted as organist , and who had consequently sat with her back turned to the congregation , during the earlier part of the service . She was quite a young girl , not more than ...
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... soon as she returned from church , and the old cotton , which she had made herself , substituted . The unpre- tending straight skirt and little full bodice did not disguise the grace and beauty of her tall , lithe form quite so much as ...
... soon as she returned from church , and the old cotton , which she had made herself , substituted . The unpre- tending straight skirt and little full bodice did not disguise the grace and beauty of her tall , lithe form quite so much as ...
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... soon chatting quite gaily to him . Laurence Ainslie was the Vicar's nephew , she told him ; he was an orphan ; both his father and mother had died some years ago , and he lived with the Vicar . " He is in a bank at and he hates it ...
... soon chatting quite gaily to him . Laurence Ainslie was the Vicar's nephew , she told him ; he was an orphan ; both his father and mother had died some years ago , and he lived with the Vicar . " He is in a bank at and he hates it ...
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Page 532 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood : Though I go bare, take ye no care ; I nothing am a-cold : I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old.
Page 218 - He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength; He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, "Ha, Ha!" And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 565 - WILT thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony ? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer, I Will.
Page 337 - A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known ; Tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own.
Page 565 - I require and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment why you may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's word doth allow, are not joined together by God, neither is their matrimony lawful.
Page 40 - Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Page 40 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Page 40 - Nor dim nor red. like God's own head. The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred. I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist.
Page 419 - The fates and characters of the rhyming tribe often employ my thoughts when I am disposed to be melancholy. There is not, among all the martyrologies that ever were penned, so rueful a narrative as the lives of the poets. In the comparative view of wretches, the criterion is not what they are doomed to suffer, but how they are formed to bear.
Page 441 - AND on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old...