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... wrong ; but you have no consideration - no sympathy ; you cannot understand a mother's feelings , ( putting her handkerchief to her eyes . ) Poor dear Jemima ! She has no father or brother to protect her : if my poor dear husband were ...
... wrong ; but you have no consideration - no sympathy ; you cannot understand a mother's feelings , ( putting her handkerchief to her eyes . ) Poor dear Jemima ! She has no father or brother to protect her : if my poor dear husband were ...
Page 44
... wrong have made me rude and savage . WIFE . The greater need of all love's gentle- ness to soften and subdue this rugged temper . Hus . I have a false , a treacherous friend , and he has taught my heart to hate and to mistrust . WIFE ...
... wrong have made me rude and savage . WIFE . The greater need of all love's gentle- ness to soften and subdue this rugged temper . Hus . I have a false , a treacherous friend , and he has taught my heart to hate and to mistrust . WIFE ...
Page 52
... wrong upon our heads : his tiger mood was never yet softened by prayer or tear . TRENCH , ( with a burst of passion . ) True , Hartley , true : I triumph , as you say . Her tears quench not , but add fresh fuel to my hate , since they ...
... wrong upon our heads : his tiger mood was never yet softened by prayer or tear . TRENCH , ( with a burst of passion . ) True , Hartley , true : I triumph , as you say . Her tears quench not , but add fresh fuel to my hate , since they ...
Page 78
... wrong me by the thought the assumption is none of mine , but arose from the prying curiosity of gossips , and the accidental circumstances of a card , a letter , and a changed hat . MISS GREY . At least , you never denied the honours ...
... wrong me by the thought the assumption is none of mine , but arose from the prying curiosity of gossips , and the accidental circumstances of a card , a letter , and a changed hat . MISS GREY . At least , you never denied the honours ...
Page 80
... wrong : it was yourself I loved , and not your wealth . I would - but no ; I will vex you no more with an unwelcome suit . Fare- well . MISS GREY . Nay , nay , you are too quick ; I never called it an unwelcome suit . I never said I ...
... wrong : it was yourself I loved , and not your wealth . I would - but no ; I will vex you no more with an unwelcome suit . Fare- well . MISS GREY . Nay , nay , you are too quick ; I never called it an unwelcome suit . I never said I ...
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alias Jones Aloud bailiffs Barton's farm beggar better BOND bride brother Captain Cleverly CLEV commissioners cousin dare say Dobson Doleful DOUBT DOWLAN Enter Exeunt Exit eyes FRANK Franklyn Garbett give going gone Gossip hand handsome HART hate hear heard heart heiress hurry impostor Jack Smith Jeremiah Brown Lady Lady Juliana look lovers marry MARY mind MISS CLEAVE MISS GREY MISS JOHN never NIECE Norfolk Island Pepper pettishly PLAC Placid POLICE Policeman Pooh Poor Bessy Poor dear Jemima post octavo Prattle proverb rich Ruffle Sandford Selby Seymour de Hauteville shame SILENT SIR FRED Sir Frederick Jones Sir Michael Mowbray Smith STRAN suppose sure swell mob talk tell thing thought Tilson told Tom Smiths tongue TRENCH trust UNCLE vile vulgar wealth wedding won't wait word worse Worthy WYVILL young
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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 :