The Merchant's Clerk: And Other TalesHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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... fell into violent hysterics . The mystery was now dispelled - it was her husband's case that she had been all the while inquiring about . I saw it all ! Poor soul , to gain my candid , my real opinion , she had devised an artifice to ...
... fell into violent hysterics . The mystery was now dispelled - it was her husband's case that she had been all the while inquiring about . I saw it all ! Poor soul , to gain my candid , my real opinion , she had devised an artifice to ...
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... fell under my own personal observa- tion , I shall lay before him , in my own way , the sub- stance of several painfully interesting conversations with this most unfortunate couple . Let not the ordi- nary reader spurn details of ...
... fell under my own personal observa- tion , I shall lay before him , in my own way , the sub- stance of several painfully interesting conversations with this most unfortunate couple . Let not the ordi- nary reader spurn details of ...
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... fell from the carriage step , most severely injuring his right ankle and shoulder . The injuries he received upon this occasion kept him con- fined for a long period to his bed , and for a still longer one to an easy chair in the back ...
... fell from the carriage step , most severely injuring his right ankle and shoulder . The injuries he received upon this occasion kept him con- fined for a long period to his bed , and for a still longer one to an easy chair in the back ...
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... fell suddenly like a spark of fire amid the combustible feel- ings of a most susceptible but subdued heart . It fixed the fate of their lives . The train so long laid had been at length unexpectedly ignited , and the confounded clerk ...
... fell suddenly like a spark of fire amid the combustible feel- ings of a most susceptible but subdued heart . It fixed the fate of their lives . The train so long laid had been at length unexpectedly ignited , and the confounded clerk ...
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... fell upon his ear , directing him to return immediately to the city , and say he had no an- swer to send till the morning , when he was to be in attendance at an early hour . Scarce knowing whether he stood on his head or his heels ...
... fell upon his ear , directing him to return immediately to the city , and say he had no an- swer to send till the morning , when he was to be in attendance at an early hour . Scarce knowing whether he stood on his head or his heels ...
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agitation arms baronet Bill Fowler 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 Mincing Lane mind Miss Hillary monk morning never Newfoundland dog night o'clock Old Bailey opened Oxleigh paused pistol poor Elliott PORCELLIAN CLUB 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 349 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Sometime walking, not unseen, By Hedge-row Elms, on Hillocks green, Right against the Eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state...
Página 115 - 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 9 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 349 - 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 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.