The Merchant's Clerk: And Other TalesHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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... mind . 66 Are Now , tell me , ma'am , candidly - confess ! not you speaking of yourself ? You really look ill ! " She trembled , but assured me emphatically that I was mistaken . She appeared about to put some ques- tion to me , when ...
... mind . 66 Are Now , tell me , ma'am , candidly - confess ! not you speaking of yourself ? You really look ill ! " She trembled , but assured me emphatically that I was mistaken . She appeared about to put some ques- tion to me , when ...
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... mind , as she stood beside her suffering sister , that I found it necessary gently to remove her from the room . What a melancholy picture of grief was before me in Mrs. Elliott , if that were her name . Her expressive features were ...
... mind , as she stood beside her suffering sister , that I found it necessary gently to remove her from the room . What a melancholy picture of grief was before me in Mrs. Elliott , if that were her name . Her expressive features were ...
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... mind and all self - respect ! His sole enjoyment was an occasional hour in the evening , spent in reading , and retracing some of his faded acquisitions in mathematics . Though a few of his associates were piqued at what they considered ...
... mind and all self - respect ! His sole enjoyment was an occasional hour in the evening , spent in reading , and retracing some of his faded acquisitions in mathematics . Though a few of his associates were piqued at what they considered ...
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... mind , he became as tyrannical and insolent in success as in ad- versity he had been supple and cringing . No spark of generous or worthy feeling had ever been struck from the flinty heart of Jacob Hillary , of the firm of Hillary ...
... mind , he became as tyrannical and insolent in success as in ad- versity he had been supple and cringing . No spark of generous or worthy feeling had ever been struck from the flinty heart of Jacob Hillary , of the firm of Hillary ...
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... mind kept thus in comparative and compulsive seclu- sion from the only concerns he cared for or that could occupy it always excepting the one great matter al- ready alluded to - his imperious and irritable temper became almost ...
... mind kept thus in comparative and compulsive seclu- sion from the only concerns he cared for or that could occupy it always excepting the one great matter al- ready alluded to - his imperious and irritable temper became almost ...
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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 daughter 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 mind Miss Hillary monk morning never Newfoundland dog night o'clock Old Bailey once 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 343 - 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 113 - 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 343 - 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 365 - SACRED HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Attempted to be Philosophically considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son. By SHARON TURNER, FSA and RASL New Edition, edited by the Rev.
Página 344 - Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Página 362 - Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens.
Página 364 - A DESCRIPTION OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, AND ITS INHABITANTS. With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the .subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers.