Recollections of a HousekeeperHarper & Brothers, 1838 - 155 páginas |
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... kind . My teacher honoured , or rewarded , me with a choice of fancy dances , and I decided on the slow minuet . How brilliant was the scene ! Our old clergyman and his lady were stationed in conspicuous seats , and looked on with benev ...
... kind . My teacher honoured , or rewarded , me with a choice of fancy dances , and I decided on the slow minuet . How brilliant was the scene ! Our old clergyman and his lady were stationed in conspicuous seats , and looked on with benev ...
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... kind friend gave me a rag - bag , and repeated to me an anecdote she was fond of relating , of a lady in Cambridge , who sold rags enough at four cents a pound to buy herself a silver porringer . " And mind , Clarissa , " con- tinued ...
... kind friend gave me a rag - bag , and repeated to me an anecdote she was fond of relating , of a lady in Cambridge , who sold rags enough at four cents a pound to buy herself a silver porringer . " And mind , Clarissa , " con- tinued ...
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... kind of a faint like all night , and he was as tender as a child to her . Once he began to tell a sea story , to try and cheer me up , but he found he made me cry more , because it didn't seem somehow re- spectful to talk of the things ...
... kind of a faint like all night , and he was as tender as a child to her . Once he began to tell a sea story , to try and cheer me up , but he found he made me cry more , because it didn't seem somehow re- spectful to talk of the things ...
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... kind of sigh , as it were , not sorrowful , but as if she was satisfied , and squeezed his hand , and so she died . " The sun rose then quite glorious . The light didn't look right to me ; it shot to my heart like ice , and I would ...
... kind of sigh , as it were , not sorrowful , but as if she was satisfied , and squeezed his hand , and so she died . " The sun rose then quite glorious . The light didn't look right to me ; it shot to my heart like ice , and I would ...
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... poor Curry sailed on . " Time passed on , and the ring was a kind of comfort to me . Sometimes I was so foolish as to talk to it , as if it could understand c 2 A HOUSEKEEPER . 29 bours, one of the crew came, and said...
... poor Curry sailed on . " Time passed on , and the ring was a kind of comfort to me . Sometimes I was so foolish as to talk to it , as if it could understand c 2 A HOUSEKEEPER . 29 bours, one of the crew came, and said...
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asked beautiful Becky bours called cambric chair CHAPTER character cheek cherub child Cholera Cinda Clarissa comfort cook cousin cream Curry dear dinner domestic door dress Edition Edward Engravings eyes feel felt Frae Frederick frill gave gentle glance glass grave Growler guests hair half hand happiness harpsichord HARVARD COLLEGE heard heart honour housekeeper husband Ingols intel John Frost kitchen lady lamp little Polly LL.D look Lucy luxuries Lyddy ma'am Mam'selle marriage mind minuet Miss Packard morning mortification mother Nancy neighbour ness never New-England night obliged parlour passed perceived Polly's poor Portrait recollect roasting Sally seemed sewing sideboard Sidney Doane silent Sliter smile sometimes soon spinet stairs Stockton stood Sukey sweet taste tears thing thrown tion took turned uncon veal visiters voice vols walked week wife William William Robertson window woman young
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Página 124 - ... after which, to the last moment of his life, he never heard the least allusion to the story, in whatever voice or tone it was mentioned, without getting up and retiring into the darkest corner of the room with great appearance. of distress. Then if you said, ' The baker was well paid,' or ' The baker was not hurt after all,' Camp came forth from his hiding-place, capered, and barked, and rejoiced.
Página 122 - Oh, young and lovely bride, watch well the first moments when your will conflicts with his to whom God and society have given the control. Reverence his wishes even when you do not his opinions.
Página 69 - As mine own shadow was this child to me, A second self, far dearer and more fair ; Which clothed in undissolving radiancy All those steep paths which languor and despair Of human things had made so dark and bare.