The Merchant's Clerk: And Other TalesHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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... heard a knock at the street door , and in a few minutes my servant showed a lady into the room . She was apparently about four or five and twenty ; neatly but very plainly dressed ; her features , despite an air of languor , as if from ...
... heard a knock at the street door , and in a few minutes my servant showed a lady into the room . She was apparently about four or five and twenty ; neatly but very plainly dressed ; her features , despite an air of languor , as if from ...
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... I would have to encounter . Ringing the bell , I summoned a female servant , who , with my wife , ( she had heard the violent cries of my patient , ) instantly made her appearance , and paid 14 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK .
... I would have to encounter . Ringing the bell , I summoned a female servant , who , with my wife , ( she had heard the violent cries of my patient , ) instantly made her appearance , and paid 14 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK .
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... heard of either of them , and assured me that she would call upon me again in a few days ' time . " But sir , " she whispered , hesitatingly , as I accompanied her through the hall to the street door , " I am really afraid we cannot ...
... heard of either of them , and assured me that she would call upon me again in a few days ' time . " But sir , " she whispered , hesitatingly , as I accompanied her through the hall to the street door , " I am really afraid we cannot ...
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... heard from the gossiping grocer . How distinctly , though perhaps unconsciously , had he sketched the downward progress of respectable poverty ! I should await the next visit of Mrs. Elliott with some eager- ness and anxiety . Nearly a ...
... heard from the gossiping grocer . How distinctly , though perhaps unconsciously , had he sketched the downward progress of respectable poverty ! I should await the next visit of Mrs. Elliott with some eager- ness and anxiety . Nearly a ...
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... heard of Mr. Elliott for the first time in her life . He could not , of course , find fault with her for this ; but he felt it deeply and bitterly . He little knew how much he wronged her ! She instantly recollected him -and it was only ...
... heard of Mr. Elliott for the first time in her life . He could not , of course , find fault with her for this ; but he felt it deeply and bitterly . He little knew how much he wronged her ! She instantly recollected him -and it was only ...
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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.