The Merchant's Clerk: And Other TalesHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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... paused , hesitated , and , as I fancied , col- oured slightly- " crossed in love - yes ! She was to have been - I mean - that is , she ought to have been married last autumn , but for this sad affair . " I bowed , looking again at my ...
... paused , hesitated , and , as I fancied , col- oured slightly- " crossed in love - yes ! She was to have been - I mean - that is , she ought to have been married last autumn , but for this sad affair . " I bowed , looking again at my ...
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... pausing for a few moments , her agitation subsided . " Well , " she began again , tremulously , " what do you think of her case , sir ? You may tell me candidly , sir , " she was evidently making violent struggles to conceal her ...
... pausing for a few moments , her agitation subsided . " Well , " she began again , tremulously , " what do you think of her case , sir ? You may tell me candidly , sir , " she was evidently making violent struggles to conceal her ...
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... paused , scarce knowing what to say . " Are her cir- cumstances easy ? Could she go to a warmer climate in the spring or early part of the summer ? I really think that change of scene would do her greater good ' than anything I could ...
... paused , scarce knowing what to say . " Are her cir- cumstances easy ? Could she go to a warmer climate in the spring or early part of the summer ? I really think that change of scene would do her greater good ' than anything I could ...
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... paused for a few moments to contem- plate . Almost fronting the door , at a table on which were several huge legers and account books , sat a young man apparently about thirty , who seemed to have just dropped asleep over a wearisome ...
... paused for a few moments to contem- plate . Almost fronting the door , at a table on which were several huge legers and account books , sat a young man apparently about thirty , who seemed to have just dropped asleep over a wearisome ...
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... paused , and recollected himself . He had , it seemed , mistaken me , at the moment , for some one whom he had expected . " Dr. , " said I , bowing , and advancing . " Oh ! I beg your pardon , sir ; pray walk in , and take a seat . " I ...
... paused , and recollected himself . He had , it seemed , mistaken me , at the moment , for some one whom he had expected . " Dr. , " said I , bowing , and advancing . " Oh ! I beg your pardon , sir ; pray walk in , and take a seat . " I ...
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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.