Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... Alice ? Can you bid me do all this , and , in the same breath , bid fare- well for ever to you and happiness ? -It is impos- sible - I can not surrender at once my love and my honour . " " There is no remedy , " said Alice , but she ...
... Alice ? Can you bid me do all this , and , in the same breath , bid fare- well for ever to you and happiness ? -It is impos- sible - I can not surrender at once my love and my honour . " " There is no remedy , " said Alice , but she ...
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... Alice , we part not . If I am to leave my native land , you shall be my com- panion in my exile . What have you to lose ? - Whom have you to abandon ? -Your father ? -The good old cause , as it is termed , is dearer to him than a ...
... Alice , we part not . If I am to leave my native land , you shall be my com- panion in my exile . What have you to lose ? - Whom have you to abandon ? -Your father ? -The good old cause , as it is termed , is dearer to him than a ...
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... Alice , faulter- ing as she uttered her negative . " And yet , " she said , " how many in my place - left alone and un- protected , as I am - But I must not - I must not for your sake , Julian , I must not . ” " Say not for my sake you ...
... Alice , faulter- ing as she uttered her negative . " And yet , " she said , " how many in my place - left alone and un- protected , as I am - But I must not - I must not for your sake , Julian , I must not . ” " Say not for my sake you ...
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... Alice Bridgenorth , their whig grand - dame . " " 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 ...
... Alice Bridgenorth , their whig grand - dame . " " 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 ...
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... Alice Bridgenorth , " any more than you can overpower me with your passion . Had the patriarch destined his son to death upon any less ground than faith and humble obedience to a divine commandment , he had meditated a murder , and not ...
... Alice Bridgenorth , " any more than you can overpower me with your passion . Had the patriarch destined his son to death upon any less ground than faith and humble obedience to a divine commandment , he had meditated a murder , and not ...
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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.