The Heiress: A Novel ...Harper & Brothers, 1834 |
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... allow ourselves to give of the " accidents of the hour , " the rooms were dark - the people looked out - of humour ... allowed to hope for repase , were practised to rival Mer- candotti . Milliners and dress - makers , who had been on ...
... allow ourselves to give of the " accidents of the hour , " the rooms were dark - the people looked out - of humour ... allowed to hope for repase , were practised to rival Mer- candotti . Milliners and dress - makers , who had been on ...
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... allow me to introduce you to a friend of mine ; " and Mrs. Throgmorton bore off her prey before the blush- ing Helen could receive or offer explanation . " Dear me ! not dancing ! " said Miss Carleton , stepping back from the circle of ...
... allow me to introduce you to a friend of mine ; " and Mrs. Throgmorton bore off her prey before the blush- ing Helen could receive or offer explanation . " Dear me ! not dancing ! " said Miss Carleton , stepping back from the circle of ...
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... allow her to do this ? And yet how could he resist what had been his brightest hope for days ? How could he , by declining , ap- pear to fling back the kindness offered ? Fortunately for his pleasure or his generosity , another decided ...
... allow her to do this ? And yet how could he resist what had been his brightest hope for days ? How could he , by declining , ap- pear to fling back the kindness offered ? Fortunately for his pleasure or his generosity , another decided ...
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... allow it , I shall purchase a commission and win glory or death nor will I hesitate to avail myself of your kindness . Alford has al- ready offered his interest , and I am not too proud to accept those favours which a noble mind can ...
... allow it , I shall purchase a commission and win glory or death nor will I hesitate to avail myself of your kindness . Alford has al- ready offered his interest , and I am not too proud to accept those favours which a noble mind can ...
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... allow conversation without being overheard by your next neighbour , Helen preferred it to the ball - room . " My womanly feelings will not permit me to understand the rapture and intoxication of gaming , " remarked our heroine to ...
... allow conversation without being overheard by your next neighbour , Helen preferred it to the ball - room . " My womanly feelings will not permit me to understand the rapture and intoxication of gaming , " remarked our heroine to ...
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admiration agony Alford Annie Annie Grey answer asked beauty believe better blush boat bright calm Caroline carriage cheek child cold colour cousin Dalton dance dare daugh dear Helen deceiver delight Dormer doubt eau de Cologne Elliott Euston eyes fancy favour fear feel felt fête forgive former gentleman half hand happiness hear heard heart Helen St heroine honour hope horse Hurlestone indignant inquired James Watts Jones kindness knew Lady Catharine laugh light lingered lips look Lord Fitzallan Lucy Martin Mahon manner Maur mind Miss Carleton Miss Grey Miss Mahon Miss St mother never nurse Palace of Truth pale passed passion pity pleasure poor quadrille question racter remarked replied Roos seemed shame silence smile sorrow speak spirit spoke stood sure tale tell thank thing thought tion told tone triumph truth turned whilst wild wish wonder words
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Página 25 - The beings of the mind are not of clay ; Essentially immortal, they create And multiply in us a brighter ray And more beloved existence : that which Fate Prohibits to dull life, in this our state Of mortal bondage...
Página 1 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 217 - The deep, the low, the pleading tone With which I sang another's love, Interpreted my own. She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace ; And she forgave me that I gazed Too fondly on her face...
Página 105 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Página 129 - Ding, Dong, bell Pussy's in the well, Who put her in? Little Johnny Green. Who pulled her out? Little Johnny Stout.
Página 141 - This* would I wear as my inheritance,— And what hope can arise to me from it, When I and it are here both prisoners ? Only may this, if ever we be free, Keep or redeem me from all infamy.
Página 81 - O! many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Página 64 - The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are past. Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift, Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho ! ho ! How...
Página 105 - O'Rourke ! noble feast, it will ne'er be forgot By those who were there, and by those who were not.
Página 78 - of what should have been done, and what should not have been done, but little of what is done.