The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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... chair , so that I might obtain a more distinct view of her features . She perceived what I was about , I think ; for she seemed to change colour a little , and to be on the verge of shedding tears . I repeated my question . She said ...
... chair , so that I might obtain a more distinct view of her features . She perceived what I was about , I think ; for she seemed to change colour a little , and to be on the verge of shedding tears . I repeated my question . She said ...
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... chair , hastily readjusted her hair , and replaced her bonnet , prepar- ing to go . She seemed to miss something , and looked about the floor , obviously embarrassed at not discover- ing the object of her search . " It is in your ...
... chair , hastily readjusted her hair , and replaced her bonnet , prepar- ing to go . She seemed to miss something , and looked about the floor , obviously embarrassed at not discover- ing the object of her search . " It is in your ...
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... chair in the back drawing room of his spacious mansion near Highbury . As soon as he was able to attend to business , he issued orders that as El- liott was the clerk whose residence was nearest to Bullion House , he should attend him ...
... chair in the back drawing room of his spacious mansion near Highbury . As soon as he was able to attend to business , he issued orders that as El- liott was the clerk whose residence was nearest to Bullion House , he should attend him ...
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... chair , flanked on one hand by his daughter , and on the other by a little table , on which stood wine and fruit . Poor Elliott looked , as well he might , exhausted with his long and rapid walk through the fervid sunshine . “ Well ...
... chair , flanked on one hand by his daughter , and on the other by a little table , on which stood wine and fruit . Poor Elliott looked , as well he might , exhausted with his long and rapid walk through the fervid sunshine . “ Well ...
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... chair to the window , with her back towards him , and attempt to proceed with the book she had been reading . Her head seemed in a whirlpool . " Get me my desk , Mary , immediately , " said her father , suddenly . " No , indeed , papa ...
... chair to the window , with her back towards him , and attempt to proceed with the book she had been reading . Her head seemed in a whirlpool . " Get me my desk , Mary , immediately , " said her father , suddenly . " No , indeed , papa ...
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agitation arms baronet Bill Fowler black puddings Bloomsbury Square bracelet Bullion House Carl Carl's carriage chair coach companion continued counting house dear Dick door dreadful Drysalt Ebury exclaimed eyes father fearful feelings fell fellow felt Forster gasped guineas hand head hear heard heart highwaymen Hillary's honour horse hour hurried husband inquired instantly lady length letter lips looked Lord Scamp Lord Squander lordship ma'am magistrate matter Mincing Lane mind Miss Hillary monk morning never Newfoundland dog night o'clock Old Bailey opened Oxleigh paused pistol poor Elliott present prisoner pugilism replied scarce scene seat seemed servant silence Sir Diggory Sir William Gwynne sitting soon stairs stood stranger suddenly sure tell thee thing thought tion tone Topknot trembling turned uttered voice wagoner walked whispered wife William Fowler words worship wretched
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Página 349 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Página 9 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 349 - While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his Dames before: Oft listening how the Hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Página 349 - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Página 115 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Página 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.