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... mother's side , alike rose in rebellion to this demand , flushed her cheek , and , strange to say , passed back to her brain , and set her wits a - going . And she had been to Italy and seen the theatricalities , and could imitate them ...
... mother's side , alike rose in rebellion to this demand , flushed her cheek , and , strange to say , passed back to her brain , and set her wits a - going . And she had been to Italy and seen the theatricalities , and could imitate them ...
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... mother that bore him , to attain it . " " Tom certainly has all the persistence of the family in the pursuit of an ob- ject , " was the way the Princess com- placently put it . " He has . I asked if he would stick at murder , and he ...
... mother that bore him , to attain it . " " Tom certainly has all the persistence of the family in the pursuit of an ob- ject , " was the way the Princess com- placently put it . " He has . I asked if he would stick at murder , and he ...
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... all . His father and mother were two Devonshire peasants , who migrated up into our part of the world when the child was quite big . And moreover my brother's morality is ut- terly beyond suspicion , 18 Silcote of Silcotes .
... all . His father and mother were two Devonshire peasants , who migrated up into our part of the world when the child was quite big . And moreover my brother's morality is ut- terly beyond suspicion , 18 Silcote of Silcotes .
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... mother was a woman of singular and remarkable beauty with a rude ladylike nobility in her manner , which I never saw any- where else . That very impertinent old woman Miss Raylock ( who by the by was creeping and bothering about at the ...
... mother was a woman of singular and remarkable beauty with a rude ladylike nobility in her manner , which I never saw any- where else . That very impertinent old woman Miss Raylock ( who by the by was creeping and bothering about at the ...
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... mother . There is only one thing more that I have to say , which is this : that I most positively refuse to marry any body whatever , even if it were to save the Silcote property from the hammer . I had quite enough of that with my ...
... mother . There is only one thing more that I have to say , which is this : that I most positively refuse to marry any body whatever , even if it were to save the Silcote property from the hammer . I had quite enough of that with my ...
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Page 231 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 225 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 388 - There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 207 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 450 - For a thousand years in thy sight, are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
Page 80 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 79 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 152 - The first line that Sir Patrick read, A loud laugh laughed he : The next line that Sir Patrick read, The tear blinded his e'e. 'O wha is this has done this deed, This ill deed done to me ; To send me out this time o' the year, To sail upon the sea?
Page 272 - ... a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Page 321 - Liberty" (to Sons of the Devil in overwhelming majority, as would appear) ; count of Heads the God-appointed way in this Universe, all other ways Devil-appointed; in one brief word, which includes whatever of palpable incredibility and delirious absurdity, universally believed, can be uttered or imagined on these points,