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... kind - so generous - a loss indeed to his afflicted survivors . He must have a handsome funeral Sandford ; one fitting his fortune , and , of course , I attend as chief mourner . SAND . The ordering everything rests with his heiress ...
... kind - so generous - a loss indeed to his afflicted survivors . He must have a handsome funeral Sandford ; one fitting his fortune , and , of course , I attend as chief mourner . SAND . The ordering everything rests with his heiress ...
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... kind uncle , but tell me how you like him . UNCLE . How I like him ? Why about as much as a fit of the gout , " Which cannot be cured , So must be endured . " NIECE . Endured , uncle ! Is that all you say ? Mr. Selby is generally ...
... kind uncle , but tell me how you like him . UNCLE . How I like him ? Why about as much as a fit of the gout , " Which cannot be cured , So must be endured . " NIECE . Endured , uncle ! Is that all you say ? Mr. Selby is generally ...
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... thou noble and high - minded woman ! Gentle and sweet as sum- mer's breath , yet firm as ocean's rock , thy stead- fast and abiding faith wins me once more to trust and love my kind But think ere you decide . THE RETURN . 45.
... thou noble and high - minded woman ! Gentle and sweet as sum- mer's breath , yet firm as ocean's rock , thy stead- fast and abiding faith wins me once more to trust and love my kind But think ere you decide . THE RETURN . 45.
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Ellen Pickering. and love my kind But think ere you decide . Your friends can give you pomp and luxury- the comforts and the elegancies of high life : I can but offer penury and gloom . WIFE . But penury and gloom ? Can you not offer me ...
Ellen Pickering. and love my kind But think ere you decide . Your friends can give you pomp and luxury- the comforts and the elegancies of high life : I can but offer penury and gloom . WIFE . But penury and gloom ? Can you not offer me ...
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... kind , so frank , that seemed to bring again some dream of early youth , and with that dream came back youth's trustful- He'll work us good - I feel he will . ness . HART . I would I could unlearn my late hard lessons of mistrust , and ...
... kind , so frank , that seemed to bring again some dream of early youth , and with that dream came back youth's trustful- He'll work us good - I feel he will . ness . HART . I would I could unlearn my late hard lessons of mistrust , and ...
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Page 64 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 35 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 90 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune...
Page 18 - I put him into an out-house; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness, shot him, before he did any harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
Page 22 - He's tall and he's straight as the poplar tree, His cheeks are as fresh as the rose ; He looks like a squire of high degree When drest in his Sunday clothes.
Page 87 - What, John, not gone yet ? I thought you were to meet the Commissioners at twelve ? " To which, by some instinct of memory, I replied without thinking, " Yes. But it has not struck yet." JOAN : " But you know it's half an hour's walk to the Guildhall. " DAUPHIN :