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Page 14
... apartment with his usual slow and sedate step - raised his flapp'd and steeple - crowned hat from his brows , and , standing in the midst of the room , eyed alternate- ly his daughter and Julian Peveril with a fixed and penetrating ...
... apartment with his usual slow and sedate step - raised his flapp'd and steeple - crowned hat from his brows , and , standing in the midst of the room , eyed alternate- ly his daughter and Julian Peveril with a fixed and penetrating ...
Page 15
... apartment . Ju- lian followed her steps with his eyes till the last wave of her garment was visible at the closing door ; then turned his looks to Ma- jor Bridgenorth , and then sunk them on the ground PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 15.
... apartment . Ju- lian followed her steps with his eyes till the last wave of her garment was visible at the closing door ; then turned his looks to Ma- jor Bridgenorth , and then sunk them on the ground PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 15.
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... apartment . " It is to such a woman as that , " said Bridge- north , looking after her significantly , " that you conceived me to have abandoned the charge of my only child ? But enough of this subject - we will walk abroad , if you ...
... apartment . " It is to such a woman as that , " said Bridge- north , looking after her significantly , " that you conceived me to have abandoned the charge of my only child ? But enough of this subject - we will walk abroad , if you ...
Page 57
... a Gothic re- cess of the old - fashioned apartment , and speak- ing so low that he could not be overheard by Alice and her gouvernante , who , in the mean- time , caressed , and fed with fragments of bread PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 57.
... a Gothic re- cess of the old - fashioned apartment , and speak- ing so low that he could not be overheard by Alice and her gouvernante , who , in the mean- time , caressed , and fed with fragments of bread PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 57.
Page 59
... apartment , but Deborah and her charge had also disappeared . His gaze rested for a moment on the portrait of Christian , and his imagination suggested , that his dark features were illuminated by a smile of haughty triumph . He started ...
... apartment , but Deborah and her charge had also disappeared . His gaze rested for a moment on the portrait of Christian , and his imagination suggested , that his dark features were illuminated by a smile of haughty triumph . He started ...
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Page 227 - Then again for pathos, where will you mend the dying scene of Arcite ? Alas, my heartis queen ! alas, my wife ! Giver at once, and ender of my life. What is this world ? — What axen men to have ? Now with his love — now in his cold grave Alone, withouten other company. But I tire you, sir; and do injustice to the poet whom I remember but by halves.
Page 218 - What made our poet meddle with a plot ? Was't that he fancied, for the very sake And name of plot, his trifling play might take ? For there's not in't one inch-board evidence...