The Heiress: A Novel ...Harper & Brothers, 1834 |
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... cause of our discomfiture . Ask another . A soft light pervaded the apartment — all looked happy - the hostess indefatigable - the music beautiful ; and this one also reveals not the real cause of her pleasure . And is it not thus in ...
... cause of our discomfiture . Ask another . A soft light pervaded the apartment — all looked happy - the hostess indefatigable - the music beautiful ; and this one also reveals not the real cause of her pleasure . And is it not thus in ...
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... cause to mourn the scuffle . The The powers of conversation possessed by De Roos were considered by his friends as almost unrivalled , and as that was a fascination which Helen rarely sought to resist , she was soon too much delighted ...
... cause to mourn the scuffle . The The powers of conversation possessed by De Roos were considered by his friends as almost unrivalled , and as that was a fascination which Helen rarely sought to resist , she was soon too much delighted ...
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... was afraid you had not ; but I hope that horrid Elliott will not ask me , for I have a terror of being the cause of a duel . " " I do not think you need be alarmed on either account . ' 93 " I am not so sure of that , " THE HEIRESS . 9.
... was afraid you had not ; but I hope that horrid Elliott will not ask me , for I have a terror of being the cause of a duel . " " I do not think you need be alarmed on either account . ' 93 " I am not so sure of that , " THE HEIRESS . 9.
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... cause she is poor and plain ; let us go to her , and get Alford to find her a partner . He is above such meanness ; " and , taking her companion's arm , she crossed over , and sat talking to Miss Mason for some moments , with a manner ...
... cause she is poor and plain ; let us go to her , and get Alford to find her a partner . He is above such meanness ; " and , taking her companion's arm , she crossed over , and sat talking to Miss Mason for some moments , with a manner ...
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... cause to the world , unless he could plead an excuse sufficiently plausible to deceive me . " “ I shall never understand things , " said Annie , with sim- plicity ; " but there is Mr. Elliott . " " Yes , he would require no bidding ...
... cause to the world , unless he could plead an excuse sufficiently plausible to deceive me . " “ I shall never understand things , " said Annie , with sim- plicity ; " but there is Mr. Elliott . " " Yes , he would require no bidding ...
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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.