My Southern Friends ...Carleton, 1863 - 308 páginas |
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... soon stopped at the door of an old , weather - worn building , which I saw by the light of the street lamp was of dingy brick , three stories high , and hermetically sealed by green board shutters . It stood but one step above the ...
... soon stopped at the door of an old , weather - worn building , which I saw by the light of the street lamp was of dingy brick , three stories high , and hermetically sealed by green board shutters . It stood but one step above the ...
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... soon as you can . I'll pay you for your trouble . " " I don't want any pay , sir , " she replied , as she turned and darted from the doorway as nimbly as if she had not been fat and forty . She soon returned with the tea and broth , and ...
... soon as you can . I'll pay you for your trouble . " " I don't want any pay , sir , " she replied , as she turned and darted from the doorway as nimbly as if she had not been fat and forty . She soon returned with the tea and broth , and ...
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... soon , and a day or two , more or less , down there , won't make any difference . Take my advice - don't throw your money away , and don't stay here too late ; the house has a very hard name , and some of its rough customers would think ...
... soon , and a day or two , more or less , down there , won't make any difference . Take my advice - don't throw your money away , and don't stay here too late ; the house has a very hard name , and some of its rough customers would think ...
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... soon , my boy ; but your mother wants you to stay here now . " He released his hold of my coat , and , sobbing violently , went with the red - faced woman . I hurried back from the apothecary's , and , seating myself on the rickety ...
... soon , my boy ; but your mother wants you to stay here now . " He released his hold of my coat , and , sobbing violently , went with the red - faced woman . I hurried back from the apothecary's , and , seating myself on the rickety ...
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... soon became warm friends . He seemed a brave , manly lad , and she thought no one ever so good or so handsome as he . Her young heart found in him what it craved for - some one to lean on and to love — and she loved him with all the ...
... soon became warm friends . He seemed a brave , manly lad , and she thought no one ever so good or so handsome as he . Her young heart found in him what it craved for - some one to lean on and to love — and she loved him with all the ...
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My Southern Friends: All of which I Saw and Part of which I was James Roberts Gilmore Vista completa - 1864 |
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Página 167 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 125 - Her children rose up and called her blessed ; her husband also, and he praised her.' Such was ' the lady ' in the old Scottish house. Her speech was the Doric of her native land, as broad as that of her domestics. Trained from her earliest days to use her hands, and believing in the dignity of labour, she taught her daughters to be what the law, based on an old fact, still as a fiction...
Página 203 - Ole Aggy an' I hab trabbled de road. Hand in hand we hab gone ober de rocks ; fru de mud ; in de hot burning sand ; been out togedder in de cole, an
Página 203 - My chil'ren, lub one anoder; bar wid one anoder; be faithful ter one anoder. You hab started on a long journey; many rough places am in de road; many trubbles will spring up by de wayside; but gwo- on hand an...
Página 203 - ... peace hab broke fru de clouds, an' sent him bressed rays inter our hearts. We started jess like two young saplin's you's seed a growin' side by side in de woods. At fust we seemed 'way part fur de brambles, and de tick bushes, an...
Página 204 - way part, fur de brambles. an' de tick bushes, an' de ugly forns — [dem war our bad ways] — war atween us, but lub, like de sun, shone down on us, an' we grow'd. We grow'd till our heads got above de bushes ; till dis little branch, an' dat little branch — dem war our holy feelin's — put out toward one anoder, an' we come closer an
Página 204 - An' dough we'm ole trees now, an' sometime de wind blow, an' de storm rage fru de tops, an' freaten ter tear off de limbs, an' ter pull up de bery roots, we'm growin' closer an' closer, an' nearer an' nearer togedder ebery day. An' soon de ole tops will meet ; soon de ole branches, all cohered ober wid de gray moss, will twine roun' one anoder; soon de two ole trees will come, togedder, an...