John Halifax, GentlemanHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 485 páginas |
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... face , and he started forward involuntarily . I had not before perceived how wasted and hungry - looking he was . up " Father ! " I whispered . But here the boy had mustered his courage and voice . 66 Sir , I want work ; may I earn a ...
... face , and he started forward involuntarily . I had not before perceived how wasted and hungry - looking he was . up " Father ! " I whispered . But here the boy had mustered his courage and voice . 66 Sir , I want work ; may I earn a ...
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... face and combed out his fair curls ; though his clothes were threadbare , all but ragged , they were not unclean ; and there was a rosy , healthy freshness in his tanned skin , which showed he loved and delighted in what poor folks ...
... face and combed out his fair curls ; though his clothes were threadbare , all but ragged , they were not unclean ; and there was a rosy , healthy freshness in his tanned skin , which showed he loved and delighted in what poor folks ...
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... face - I longed after him so . At last I broke the bonds of sickness - which Jael always riveted as long and as tightly as she could - and plunged into the outer world again . It was one market - day - Jael being absent — that I came ...
... face - I longed after him so . At last I broke the bonds of sickness - which Jael always riveted as long and as tightly as she could - and plunged into the outer world again . It was one market - day - Jael being absent — that I came ...
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... face the same face , which , whatever rags it sur- mounted , would , I believe , have ennobled them all . I leaned out , watching him approach our house ; watch ing him with so great pleasure , that I forgot to wonder whether or no he ...
... face the same face , which , whatever rags it sur- mounted , would , I believe , have ennobled them all . I leaned out , watching him approach our house ; watch ing him with so great pleasure , that I forgot to wonder whether or no he ...
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... face as if he did not quite revel in that delightful prospect - No wonder ! " I'll come and see you there this afternoon . " 66 " No ? " with a look of delighted surprise . " But you must not - you ought not . " " But I will ! " And I ...
... face as if he did not quite revel in that delightful prospect - No wonder ! " I'll come and see you there this afternoon . " 66 " No ? " with a look of delighted surprise . " But you must not - you ought not . " " But I will ! " And I ...
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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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