The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... wives , because she is wise enough to let him pass his life at his club , well - bred enough to be civil to him in public , and judicious enough never to see him in private .. Lady C. is , in short , a woman of what is called the world ...
... wives , because she is wise enough to let him pass his life at his club , well - bred enough to be civil to him in public , and judicious enough never to see him in private .. Lady C. is , in short , a woman of what is called the world ...
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... wife scudded fussily out of the way of an introduction . " Heaven forbid that such painstaking people should be lightly spoken of , " she replied . " Two more per- severing distinction - hunters never climbed the ladder of society ...
... wife scudded fussily out of the way of an introduction . " Heaven forbid that such painstaking people should be lightly spoken of , " she replied . " Two more per- severing distinction - hunters never climbed the ladder of society ...
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... wife of a Welsh baronet neighbour . The company assembled by the lady of the leek was of the kind called ' highly ... wives , alas ! was a Lady La- vinia Tarpaulin , who had spritsailed her way through a fashionable winter at Brighton ...
... wife of a Welsh baronet neighbour . The company assembled by the lady of the leek was of the kind called ' highly ... wives , alas ! was a Lady La- vinia Tarpaulin , who had spritsailed her way through a fashionable winter at Brighton ...
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... wife , and noting the prog- ress of time in her dear familiar face . And how dear , -how very dear , is a familiar face , beheld after long estrangement ! They may talk of returning to the scenes of our youth , the old mansion , the ...
... wife , and noting the prog- ress of time in her dear familiar face . And how dear , -how very dear , is a familiar face , beheld after long estrangement ! They may talk of returning to the scenes of our youth , the old mansion , the ...
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... wife . " Lady Clendinning dead ? " cried Lady Evelyn . " Im- possible ! you must have been misinformed ! " 66 I fear not . She died last night . " " Last night ? -oh dear , no . Mr. Beresford was with his father yesterday morning , just ...
... wife . " Lady Clendinning dead ? " cried Lady Evelyn . " Im- possible ! you must have been misinformed ! " 66 I fear not . She died last night . " " Last night ? -oh dear , no . Mr. Beresford was with his father yesterday morning , just ...
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Página 216 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Página 217 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth: —It is the hour of feeling. One moment now may give us more Than years of toiling reason: Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season.
Página 34 - They act as conductors to the storms usually hovering in the air. The man forced to remain at home, and vent his crossness on his wife and children, is a much worse animal to bear with than the man who grumbles his way to Pall Mall, and not daring to swear at the club-servants, or knock about the club-furniture, becomes socialised into decency. Nothing like the subordination exercised in a community of equals for reducing a fiery temper.