John Halifax, GentlemanHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 485 páginas |
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... quiet drollery and healthy humor , which was to me an inexpressible relief . It gave me something I did not possess - something entirely new . I could not look at the dancing brown eyes , at the quaint dimples of lurking fun that played ...
... quiet drollery and healthy humor , which was to me an inexpressible relief . It gave me something I did not possess - something entirely new . I could not look at the dancing brown eyes , at the quaint dimples of lurking fun that played ...
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... quiet , intense satisfac- tion grew and diffused itself over his whole countenance . " It's a very nice place . " Certainly it was . A large square , chiefly grass , level as a bowling - green , with borders round . Beyond , divided by ...
... quiet , intense satisfac- tion grew and diffused itself over his whole countenance . " It's a very nice place . " Certainly it was . A large square , chiefly grass , level as a bowling - green , with borders round . Beyond , divided by ...
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... quiet enough even to please Jael . I was thinking over the beautiful old Bible story , which latterly had so vividly impressed itself on my mind ; thinking of Jonathan , as he walked " by the stone Ezel , " with the shepherd - lad , who ...
... quiet enough even to please Jael . I was thinking over the beautiful old Bible story , which latterly had so vividly impressed itself on my mind ; thinking of Jonathan , as he walked " by the stone Ezel , " with the shepherd - lad , who ...
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... quiet home , a good father , and now I think and believe I have found the one thing I wanted - a good friend . " He smiled , but only because I did . I saw he did not understand me . In him , as in most strong and self - con- tained ...
... quiet home , a good father , and now I think and believe I have found the one thing I wanted - a good friend . " He smiled , but only because I did . I saw he did not understand me . In him , as in most strong and self - con- tained ...
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... quiet beauty , and its inexpres- sibly soothing charm , was likely to make the simple , every- day act of " looking out o ' window , " unconsciously influ ence the mind as much as a world of books . " Do you like your castle , ' John ...
... quiet beauty , and its inexpres- sibly soothing charm , was likely to make the simple , every- day act of " looking out o ' window , " unconsciously influ ence the mind as much as a world of books . " Do you like your castle , ' John ...
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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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