Miss Daisy Dimity, by the author of 'Queenie'. |
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... seemed to know that she came into a bright - lit little entry ; next that three girls crowded round her with welcome , and sympathy for her supposed fatigues . Then she was taken upstairs to a tiny bed - room , and begged not to change ...
... seemed to know that she came into a bright - lit little entry ; next that three girls crowded round her with welcome , and sympathy for her supposed fatigues . Then she was taken upstairs to a tiny bed - room , and begged not to change ...
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... seemed to her refined and high - minded — as regarded all that fun about Major Hodge , for instance . Jack would not have understood — would have said that girls always found fault with each other . And Daisy did not like to repeat ...
... seemed to her refined and high - minded — as regarded all that fun about Major Hodge , for instance . Jack would not have understood — would have said that girls always found fault with each other . And Daisy did not like to repeat ...
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... seemed to like talking to her very much , too ; for , in her gentle , languid way , she was equally pleased , repaying the young man by flattery . It was very innocent flattery , only the praises of his little white terrier and his ...
... seemed to like talking to her very much , too ; for , in her gentle , languid way , she was equally pleased , repaying the young man by flattery . It was very innocent flattery , only the praises of his little white terrier and his ...
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... seemed to think himself , as they did , the natural centre . 66 Ah , Miss Birdie , how well you are looking to - day ! Well , Miss Pussy , what mischief have you been about lately ? Flirting on the quiet , and nearly killing some more ...
... seemed to think himself , as they did , the natural centre . 66 Ah , Miss Birdie , how well you are looking to - day ! Well , Miss Pussy , what mischief have you been about lately ? Flirting on the quiet , and nearly killing some more ...
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... seemed also highly tickled ; then both " passed it on to Mr. Jones ; who , however , though he nodded his heavy head and smiled , hardly seemed to consider the joke equally excellent . Next , Fuzzy heard and imparted it to Major Hodge ...
... seemed also highly tickled ; then both " passed it on to Mr. Jones ; who , however , though he nodded his heavy head and smiled , hardly seemed to consider the joke equally excellent . Next , Fuzzy heard and imparted it to Major Hodge ...
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Miss Daisy Dimity, by the Author of 'Queenie' Maria Henrietta De La Cherois-Crommelin Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
admiring afraid answered asked ball began Birdie Birdie's Brandiston British Army brother called Captain Gascoigne Captain O'Donoghue Colonel Dunn Cox family Cox girls cried Daisy felt Daisy's dance daughters dear declared delight Dimity's door drawing-room dress ejaculated Elm Hall exclaimed eyes face Fairlawns feeling Gascoigne's gaze gentle gentlemen give glad glance guest hand head heard heart Jack Dimity Jack's Jerry Brown Jones Khyber Pass Road knew laughed little Miss Dimity looked Luxton Major Hodge Marstown young matter mind Miss Cox Miss Goodchild Miss Smeeth Misses Silverthorne morning murmured never night old ladies Polly poor Daisy Pussy quiet regiment rest round seemed sigh sister sitting Smiler Lee softly squire sure talk tell thing thought to-night told tone tribe of Gad turned uttered voice whilst whispered wish wonder young ladies
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Página 37 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 4 - Sweet Daisy ! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming Common-place Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which Love makes for thee...
Página 138 - Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day — And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday...
Página 16 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Página 156 - And trust me, dear, good-humour can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail; Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul," So spoke the dame, but no applause ensued : Belinda frown'd, Thalestris call'd her prude.
Página 296 - Grew lovelier from her pencil's shading : She botanized; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She warbled...
Página 74 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Página 299 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Página 185 - A weary lot is thine, fair maid, A weary lot is thine ! To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, And press the rue for wine ! A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien, A feather of the blue, A doublet of the Lincoln green, — No more of me you knew, My love ! No more of me you knew. " This morn is merry June, I trow, The rose is budding fain ;* But she shall bloom in winter snow, Ere we two meet again.
Página 265 - Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white ; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk ; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me.