The Merchant's Clerk: And Other TalesHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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... 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 recent indisposition , without be- ing strictly handsome , had a pleasing ...
... 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 recent indisposition , without be- ing strictly handsome , had a pleasing ...
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... lady who is an invalid , and has written to request I would call imme- diately upon some experienced physician , and obtain , as far as can be , his real opinion upon her case , for she fancies , poor girl ! that they are concealing ...
... lady who is an invalid , and has written to request I would call imme- diately upon some experienced physician , and obtain , as far as can be , his real opinion upon her case , for she fancies , poor girl ! that they are concealing ...
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... lady's handwriting , to " Mrs. Elliott , No. 5 , street . ' This I put into my pocketbook . She had also , in falling , dropped a small piece of paper , evi- dently containing my intended fee , neatly folded up . This I slipped into the ...
... lady's handwriting , to " Mrs. Elliott , No. 5 , street . ' This I put into my pocketbook . She had also , in falling , dropped a small piece of paper , evi- dently containing my intended fee , neatly folded up . This I slipped into the ...
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... lady , " said I , with a smile . " I was sorry , Mrs. Elliott , that you had to wait so long for me this morning - I hope it did not inconvenience you . " I began to think how I should manage to decline the fee I perceived they were pre ...
... lady , " said I , with a smile . " I was sorry , Mrs. Elliott , that you had to wait so long for me this morning - I hope it did not inconvenience you . " I began to think how I should manage to decline the fee I perceived they were pre ...
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... lady , with an air of anxious vivacity , not attempting to convey to her lips the brimming wineglass her father had filled for her , lest the trembling of her hand should be observed by him . " Oh , you are joking ! THE MERCHANT'S CLERK ...
... lady , with an air of anxious vivacity , not attempting to convey to her lips the brimming wineglass her father had filled for her , lest the trembling of her hand should be observed by him . " Oh , you are joking ! THE MERCHANT'S CLERK ...
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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.