The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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... continued , in a tone considerably more assured . " The fact is , I have received a letter this morning from a friend of mine in the country , a young lady who is an invalid , and has written to request I would call imme- diately upon ...
... continued , in a tone considerably more assured . " The fact is , I have received a letter this morning from a friend of mine in the country , a young lady who is an invalid , and has written to request I would call imme- diately upon ...
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... continued , putting back again his precious commodity , " for they makes two or three ounces of this do for a week - unless they goes elsewhere , which I don't think they do , by - the- way and I'm sure they oughtn't ; for , though I ...
... continued , putting back again his precious commodity , " for they makes two or three ounces of this do for a week - unless they goes elsewhere , which I don't think they do , by - the- way and I'm sure they oughtn't ; for , though I ...
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... continued , dropping his voice ; " for , between you and I , old Browning the pawnbroker , a little way up on the left - hand side , has a flute in his window that's the very image of what Mrs. Hooper showed us that night I was speaking ...
... continued , dropping his voice ; " for , between you and I , old Browning the pawnbroker , a little way up on the left - hand side , has a flute in his window that's the very image of what Mrs. Hooper showed us that night I was speaking ...
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... continued her father , determined , this time , to go to work with greater skill and tact than on the preceding evening . " I want an answer , Mary ! " 66 Why , papa , it was a very odd thing now , was not it ? " said his daughter ...
... continued her father , determined , this time , to go to work with greater skill and tact than on the preceding evening . " I want an answer , Mary ! " 66 Why , papa , it was a very odd thing now , was not it ? " said his daughter ...
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... continued ; but his companion sprang to the bell , lifted her inanimate form from the floor , and gave her to the entering servants , who instantly bore her to her own room . Mr. Jeffreys the solicitor , a highly respectable man , to ...
... continued ; but his companion sprang to the bell , lifted her inanimate form from the floor , and gave her to the entering servants , who instantly bore her to her own room . Mr. Jeffreys the solicitor , a highly respectable man , to ...
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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.