John Halifax, GentlemanHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 485 páginas |
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... smile went right to my heart . 66 Have you been up and down the country much ? " 66 " A great deal — these last three years ; doing a hand's turn , as best I could , in hop - picking , apple - gathering , har- vesting ; only this summer ...
... smile went right to my heart . 66 Have you been up and down the country much ? " 66 " A great deal — these last three years ; doing a hand's turn , as best I could , in hop - picking , apple - gathering , har- vesting ; only this summer ...
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... smiling at it as I regarded him . He had washed his 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 ...
... smiling at it as I regarded him . He had washed his 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 ...
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... smiling out through the window at the blue sky ; that steady , brave , honest smile , which will meet Fate in every turn , and fairly coax the jade into good humor . " John , do you know you're uncommonly like a childish hero of mine ...
... smiling out through the window at the blue sky ; that steady , brave , honest smile , which will meet Fate in every turn , and fairly coax the jade into good humor . " John , do you know you're uncommonly like a childish hero of mine ...
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... smile of his . " I'll tell you what I'd do - I'd begin and break it , twig by twig , till I forced my way through , and got out safe at the other side . " " Well done , lad ! —but if it's all the same to thee , I would rather thee did ...
... smile of his . " I'll tell you what I'd do - I'd begin and break it , twig by twig , till I forced my way through , and got out safe at the other side . " " Well done , lad ! —but if it's all the same to thee , I would rather thee did ...
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... smile . He was too busy calculating how many more of those said shillings would be a fair equivalent for such labor as a lad , ever so much the junior of Bill Watkins , could supply . After some cogitation , he hit upon the right sum ...
... smile . He was too busy calculating how many more of those said shillings would be a fair equivalent for such labor as a lad , ever so much the junior of Bill Watkins , could supply . After some cogitation , he hit upon the right sum ...
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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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