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a-doing ain't amused beg your pardon Bessie Betty's cads carrier's cart chair child clerk comfortable creature cried dark daughter dear Dewsbury dinner dogcart door everything eyes face Fanny Hardcastle father feel felt Fennell folks fond friends gate gave girl gone grandmamma hands head heart Jack Brownlow John Brownlow Keppel kind knew Lady Motherwell laugh least little princess lived lodger looked mamma marry Masterton matter mean meant mind Miss Brownlow Miss Sara mother never nice old Betty old woman once Pamela papa perhaps Phoebe Thomson pleasant poor Preston pretty pretty horse Rector rheumatism rings of dark round Sara's Sir Charles smile sort speak Stanmore stood suppose sure Swayne Swayne's talk tall tell there's thing thought Tom Fennell took turn walk window wonder Wrinkell young fellow young Powys
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Página 54 - That might be all very well for a time," said the prudent Fanny ; " but you would get old, and you couldn't stay here for ever. That is what I am afraid of. Things get so dull when one is old." " Do you think so ? " said Sara. " I don't think 1 should be dull — I have so many things to do.
Página 2 - Brownlow did not know more than they knew themselves, and in his hands, and in the hands of his fathers before him, had reposed the papers and affairs of all the squires about, titled or otherwise, for more years than could be counted. It was clever of the Brownlows to have had so much business in their hands and yet not to be rich ; but virtue, when it is exceptional, is perhaps always a little extreme, and so it is probable that an honest lawyer is honester than most honest men who have no particular...
Página 16 - She had a little rosebud mouth, dewy and pearly, and full eyes, which were blue, or grey, or hazel, according as you looked at them, and according to the sentiment which they might happen to express. She was very tall, very slight and flexible, and wavy like a tall lily, with the slightest variable stoop in her pretty shoulders, for which her life had been rendered miserable by many wellmeaning persons, but which, in reality, was one of her charms. To say that she stooped, is an ugly expression,...
Página 57 - I hope you'll keep to your own standard," said Keppel, with a little bitterness, " unless you think an •only son and a duke on equal ground." "Don't sneer," said Jack ; "I'm young Brownlow the attorney ; you know that as well as I do. I can't go visiting all over the country at my uncle's place and my cousin's place, like you. Brownlows is a sort of a joke to most people, you know. Not that I haven't as much respect for my father and my family as if we were all princes ; and I mean to stand by...
Página 59 - ... little, notwithstanding Mr Hardcastle's ruddy countenance, which was due rather to fresh air, taken in large and sometimes boisterous draughts, than to any stronger beverage. But they liked their talk, and they were, in a friendly way, opposed to each other on a great many questions ; the Rector, as in duty bound, being steadily Conservative, while the lawyer had crotchets in political matters. They were discussing the representatives of the county, and also those of some of the neighbouring...
Página 8 - Brownlow very quietly, and to his own consciousness alone, d — d Phoebe Thomson, and gave up the useless investigation. But he was a man who had eyes, and a strong sense of justice. When he thought of the poor Fennells, his anger rose against the wretched old woman who had laid on him the burden of her money. Poor Mrs Fennell's son was good for nothing, but she had a daughter who was good for much ; and Bessie had a lover who would gladly have married her, had that wicked old miser, as John Brownlow...
Página 60 - It was a kind of ease to him to give this hint that he was still human and fallible, and might have losses to undergo; but the same instinct which made him speak closed his lips as to any more disastrous consequences than the loss of the original legacy. " Sara will have some tea for us up-stairs,
Página 156 - I am a Masterton girl, and I ought not to go with you grand county folks — oh no, papa must take me ; but thank you very much all the same." "You are an odd girl," said Lady Motherwell. " You forget your papa is one of the very richest of the county folks, as you call us. I think Brownlows is the finest place within twenty miles, and you that are the mistress of it " "Don't laugh at me, please — I don't like being laughed at. It makes me feel like a cat...
Página 183 - Miss, he's one o' them as brings down grey hairs wi' sorrow — not as I have a many to lose, though when I was a young lass, the likes o' me for a 'ead of 'air wasn't in all Dewsbury. But Tom, I'm afeard, I'm afeard, has tooken to terrible bad ways.
Página 183 - Anyhow it is very easy to pay them something," she said. " I will pay it for you till your rheumatism is better. And then there is your other son, who was a tailor or something — where is he ?" " Oh, if I could but tell !" said Betty. "Oh, Miss, he's one o' them as brings down grey hairs wi' sorrow — not as I have a many to lose, though when I was a young lass, the likes o' me for a 'ead of 'air wasn't in all Dewsbury.