A Week in a French Country-houseMacmillan, 1903 - 221 páginas |
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Adelaide Kemble ADELAIDE SARTORIS answered arrived aunt Emily beautiful Bessie boar breakfast carriage Charles Kemble CHARLOTTE BRONTË charming coloured cried crown 8vo curé delightful dinner drawing-room dress England English exclaimed eyes face Fanny Fanny Kemble feeling forest FRENCH COUNTRY-HOUSE give heard heart hounds hunting Italian Jeanne keney knew Lady Blankeney laughing letter living looked Lord Leighton Madame de Caradec Madame la Comtesse Margery Maria Marny marry Miss Hamilton Miss Hope Monsieur Berthier Monsieur Charles Monsieur de Saldes Monsieur Dessaix Monsieur Jacques Monsieur Kiowski Monsieur René morning mother never night Olympe's once Paris perfectly piano play poor PREFACE pretty remember RICHMOND RITCHIE round sang seemed sing sister smile sofa sort suddenly sweet talk Tantum ergo tell things thought told took turned utter voice walk Warnford Warsash whole woman young
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Página 218 - This New and Revised Edition comprises additional material and hitherto Unpublished Letters, Sketches, and Drawings, derived from the Author's Original MSS.
Página 218 - Society. Introductions to the Works are supplied by Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD, and an Introduction and Notes to Mrs. GASKELL'S " Life of Charlotte Bronte,
Página 78 - It will manifestly be for the best that I should retire. My lord, I wish you good morning. Mrs. Proudie, good morning." And so he left the room. " A most stubborn and a most ungentlemanlike man," said Mrs. Proudie, as soon as the door was closed behind the retreating rural dean. " I do not think that in the whole course of my life I ever met with any one so insubordinate and so ill-mannered. He is worse than the archdeacon.
Página 217 - WELLINGTON'S LIEUTENANTS. By ALEXANDER INNES SHAND, Author of " Half-a-Century ; or, Changes in Men and Manners," "The Lady Grange," &c. With 8 Portraits. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. THE STORY OF THE BOLD PECOPIN: A Legend of the Rhine. By VICTOR HUGO. Done into English by ELEANOR and AUGUSTINE BIRRELL. With 8 Illustrations by HR MILLAR. Fcap. 410, 7s. 6d.
Página 218 - I do not hesitate to name Thackeray first. His knowledge of human nature was supreme, and his characters stand out as human beings with a force and a truth which has not, I think, been within the reach of any other English novelist in any period.
Página 218 - LIFE AND WORKS OF CHARLOTTE, EMILY, and ANNE BRONTE. The "Haworth" Edition. " Assuredly there are few books which will live longer in English literature than those we owe to the pen of the Bronte Swters."— SPEAKER.
Página 218 - Introductions to the Works are supplied by Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD, AND An Introduction and Notes to Mrs. Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte
Página xxxvi - Roman drawing-room with a great window to the west, and the colours of the room were not unlike sunset colours. There was a long piano with a bowl of flowers on it in the centre of the room ; there were soft carpets to tread upon ; a beautiful little boy in a white dress, with yellow locks all a-shine from the light of the window, was perched upon a low chair looking up at his mother, who with her arm round him stood by the chair, so that their two heads were on a level. She was dressed (I can see...
Página 218 - In 7 Vols. large crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, 6s. each; or in set cloth binding, gilt top, £2, 2s. the Set With Portraits and Illustrations, including Views of Places described in the Works reproduced from Photographs specially taken for the purpose by Mr.
Página 132 - One does but what one is. Thou dear old ninny," she went on caressingly, " thou hast a little soul: how wilt thou do great things with it ? But thou hast a tender soul, and a fanciful brain, and of grace, tenderness, and fancy thou wilt always be master. Thou canst but what thou art. Write me a cantata of David before he went up to slay the Philistine, in the flower of his shepherd days, and I will sing that for thee.