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“ Can you speak thus , Alice ? ” said her lover . “ Can you use such expressions and are you not sensible that they show plainly it is your own pride , not regard for me , that makes you resist the happiness of both ?
“ Can you speak thus , Alice ? ” said her lover . “ Can you use such expressions and are you not sensible that they show plainly it is your own pride , not regard for me , that makes you resist the happiness of both ?
Julian , to you my last words are , and I would speak them with my last breath - Farewell , and caution . " She turned from them , disappeared among the underwood , and was seen no more . “ A true specimen of womankind , " said her ...
... like free - born Englishmen , than that they should slide into the bloodless but dishonoured grave which slavery opens for its vassals - But it is not of war that I was about to speak , ” he added , assuming a milder tone .
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My mother speaks of consulting you on the subject , Julian ; and I will not anticipate her solemn communication . It will be partly apologetical , I suppose ; for we begin to think our retreat rather unroyal , and that , like the wicked ...
My mother speaks of consulting you on the subject , Julian ; and I will not anticipate her solemn communication . It will be partly apologetical , I suppose ; for we begin to think our retreat rather unroyal , and that , like the wicked ...
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Page 194 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
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| Title | Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2 Peveril of the Peak, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | James Crissy, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 25, 2007 |
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