John Halifax, GentlemanHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 485 páginas |
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... Fletcher's road , ye idle , lounging , little- " Vagabond , " I think the woman ( Sally Watkins , once my nurse ) , was going to say , but she changed her mind . My father and I both glanced round , surprised at her unusual reticence of ...
... Fletcher's road , ye idle , lounging , little- " Vagabond , " I think the woman ( Sally Watkins , once my nurse ) , was going to say , but she changed her mind . My father and I both glanced round , surprised at her unusual reticence of ...
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... Fletcher to have for his only child such a sickly creature as I , now , at sixteen , as helpless and useless to him as a baby . 66 ' Well , well , I must find some one to go home with thee . " For though my father had got me a sort of ...
... Fletcher to have for his only child such a sickly creature as I , now , at sixteen , as helpless and useless to him as a baby . 66 ' Well , well , I must find some one to go home with thee . " For though my father had got me a sort of ...
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... Fletcher jingled temptingly the silver money in the pockets of his long flap- ped brown waistcoat . " I say , art thee a lad to be trusted ? " John Halifax neither answered nor declined his eyes . He seemed to feel that this was a ...
... Fletcher jingled temptingly the silver money in the pockets of his long flap- ped brown waistcoat . " I say , art thee a lad to be trusted ? " John Halifax neither answered nor declined his eyes . He seemed to feel that this was a ...
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... Fletcher never forgot that we originally came of a good stock , and that it pleased him to call me , his only son , after one of our forefathers , not unknown - Phineas Fletcher , who wrote the " Purple Island . " Thus it seemed to me ...
... Fletcher never forgot that we originally came of a good stock , and that it pleased him to call me , his only son , after one of our forefathers , not unknown - Phineas Fletcher , who wrote the " Purple Island . " Thus it seemed to me ...
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... Fletcher , sharply , as he disappeared . So , still holding my David fast , I brought him into my father's house . CHAPTER II . DINNER was over ; my father and I took ours in the large parlor , where the stiff , high - backed chairs ...
... Fletcher , sharply , as he disappeared . So , still holding my David fast , I brought him into my father's house . CHAPTER II . DINNER was over ; my father and I took ours in the large parlor , where the stiff , high - backed chairs ...
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Abel Fletcher answered asked Beechwood better Brithwood child Cloth daughter dear derley door Edwin Enderley eyes face fancy father feel gentleman gone Guy's hand happy hear heard heart honor husband Jael Jessop John Halifax JOHN S. C. ABBOTT John's Kingswell knew Lady Caroline laughed listened little Muriel live Longfield looked Lord Luxmore Lord Ravenel marriage Mary Baines Maud mill mind minute Miss March Miss Silver morning mother Muriel never night Norton Bury Oldtower once pain parlor perhaps Phineas Fletcher poor quiet rose round seemed silence Sir Ralph smile spoke stood sure talking tan-yard tell thank thee things thought to-day to-morrow told took turned Uncle Phineas Ursula voice walk watching wife window wish woman wonder word young
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Página 416 - And babes, sweet-smiling babes, our bed. How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys.
Página 106 - His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets, and rich content : The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him With coolest shades, till...
Página 105 - Thrice, oh! thrice happy, shepherd's life and state! When courts are happiness, unhappy pawns! His cottage low and safely humble gate Shuts out proud Fortune, with her scorns and fawns. No feared treason breaks his quiet sleep ; Singing all day, his flocks he learns to keep, Himself as innocent as are his simple sheep. No Serian worms he knows, that with their thread Draw out their silken lives — nor silken pride: His lambs...
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