Beauty and the beast, by Sarah Tytler, Volume 11884 |
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... Eastham , and it was not fit either for the rank and file of the army , or for the honour- able fraternity of baronets and squires , that he should continue a day longer than was necessary a private soldier , even in the most select and ...
... Eastham , and it was not fit either for the rank and file of the army , or for the honour- able fraternity of baronets and squires , that he should continue a day longer than was necessary a private soldier , even in the most select and ...
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... Eastham , but , like many another old family , all its members had not pre- served its dignity intact , or behaved with the decorum which ought to have accompanied blue blood . Two generations before , a foolish lad had alienated his ...
... Eastham , but , like many another old family , all its members had not pre- served its dignity intact , or behaved with the decorum which ought to have accompanied blue blood . Two generations before , a foolish lad had alienated his ...
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... Eastham ; but it was not without its charms in the absence of picturesqueness . It was wide and free , even to its broad , rutted , shaggy green lanes , in which a gipsy encamp- ment , or the evicted Shakers might pitch a tent or two ...
... Eastham ; but it was not without its charms in the absence of picturesqueness . It was wide and free , even to its broad , rutted , shaggy green lanes , in which a gipsy encamp- ment , or the evicted Shakers might pitch a tent or two ...
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... was comparatively waste , half - inhabited and down- trodden in this section of Eastham ; but there was no gloom which a March wind and a changeful March sky could not relieve and carry off . 42 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST .
... was comparatively waste , half - inhabited and down- trodden in this section of Eastham ; but there was no gloom which a March wind and a changeful March sky could not relieve and carry off . 42 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST .
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... Eastham . The house was not likely to impress his ignorant , underbred taste . He felt rather inclined to contrast the reality a little sadly and sardonically with his poor Jen's delirious dreams - in which she con- founded earth and ...
... Eastham . The house was not likely to impress his ignorant , underbred taste . He felt rather inclined to contrast the reality a little sadly and sardonically with his poor Jen's delirious dreams - in which she con- founded earth and ...
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acquainted ain't ball ball-room beauty better Bill Bill Rogers brother brought called cotillon dance daughter dear drawing-room drink Eastham eyes face fancy father favour feel fellow gentleman girl gout grand grand-daughter grandmamma grandmother hand head heard heart honour husband Iris Compton Iris's Jenny Jenny's King Lud knew Knotley Lady Fermor Lady Thwaite Lambford laugh Lawrie look Lord Fermor Lucy Acton Ludovic Acton Major Pollock marriage married masquerade ball master Maudie Mildmay Miles mind Miss Burrage Miss Compton neighbours ness Netherton never old Abe old lady old Sir John old woman partner play poor regiment round SARAH TYTLER servant Sir William Thwaite sister speak spite Squire stephanotis stood tell thing Thwaite's tion took turn waltz Whitehills wife window WINDOW BLINDS women word young
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Página 122 - rose up before him the interior of a soldier's hut, and the spectacle of Jen, worn out by her efforts to save him, pleading with her last gasp that he might redeem himself from destruction. His manners had not that repose which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere. He lost command over himself. His blue eyes sparkled like steel.
Página 299 - I'ma modest man, so that I'm at a loss to know what I've done to deserve it, unless you and I are going to be better friends in future. You may depend upon it I'm eternally obliged to you.' Swearing friendship with Major Pollock— was
Página 295 - and it would dawn upon him that she had never looked upon him in any other light than that of an acquaintance and
Página 302 - flattering symptom women betray at an early stage of a certain malady ? Were you never told that when a woman is willing, a man can but look like a fool ? Do you want to look like a fool ? Would you deprive us of our single, short season of power ? Don't we pay dearly for it to the best of you men in
Página 97 - was young myself, but my youth passed soon,' remarked Lady Thwaite with an echo of pensiveness in the reflection, pausing as if she expected to be contradicted, and then going on with a furtive smile, faintly acidulated, at the omission of any contradiction, ' Poor dear Sir John liked the society of his contemporaries, naturally,. and
Página 247 - would set their small scholars such astounding lessons as no youthful brain could compass, which drove the juvenile fry and their parents to the verge of despair. Or Nanny Hollis would undertake to enact the entire drama of ' Punch and Judy ' for the benefit of the assembly. Withal, the Hollises were kind-hearted in their heedlessness.
Página 304 - spoken to him. But when he saw I was pleased with his volunteering a subscription, in the handsomest, most modest manner, I assure you, darling, he wished to double it. I had actually to forbid it. There is a man with his heart in the right place ! That is of twice as much consequence as
Página 45 - selection. They behaved with the silent, attentive civility which was all that was wanted from them. If they could practise imperturbability in addition to the quiet discharge of their duties, it might be as well; though Mr. Miles began to hope more and more that Sir William would not from the beginning tax too severely
Página 90 - the conversation took a more cheerful turn, and Lady Thwaite's social gifts, as a lively woman of the world, came out to anybody capable of appreciating her. The interview had not proved very formidable, and from the date of the introduction the gentleman found himself, he could hardly tell how, in frequent communication with