The Head of the Family: A NovelHarper & brothers, 1871 - 528 páginas |
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... rest and sure - so sure , that no outward show was asked or needed . 66 Will you dine now ? or have dinner and tea together when the children arrive ? I thought you would like that best , brother ? " " Certainly ! " The colloquy ceased ...
... rest and sure - so sure , that no outward show was asked or needed . 66 Will you dine now ? or have dinner and tea together when the children arrive ? I thought you would like that best , brother ? " " Certainly ! " The colloquy ceased ...
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... rest of her looks , she had a fair skin , flaxen hair , that would always be flaxen - never gray . She generally wore a sort of half - cap of black lace , which , though she probably did not know it , was the most becoming head - tire a ...
... rest of her looks , she had a fair skin , flaxen hair , that would always be flaxen - never gray . She generally wore a sort of half - cap of black lace , which , though she probably did not know it , was the most becoming head - tire a ...
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... rest of the company was consid- erably disturbed . Charlie also contributed a few of those trifling annoyances which seemed necessary clouds to di- versify the beauty of the family atmosphere , amusing him- self at intervals by ...
... rest of the company was consid- erably disturbed . Charlie also contributed a few of those trifling annoyances which seemed necessary clouds to di- versify the beauty of the family atmosphere , amusing him- self at intervals by ...
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... rest , Ninian once more gathered his household together , to take upon him , for the first time , a duty ever religiously observed by his father ; for Profes- sor Græme came of blood that , in the sorrowful days of Covenanting warfare ...
... rest , Ninian once more gathered his household together , to take upon him , for the first time , a duty ever religiously observed by his father ; for Profes- sor Græme came of blood that , in the sorrowful days of Covenanting warfare ...
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... rest . But until long past midnight , till the lamp flickered and went out , and there was but a handful of red cinders left of the fire , Ninian sat there , pondering on the charge he had undertaken , on all that lay before him to ...
... rest . But until long past midnight , till the lamp flickered and went out , and there was but a handful of red cinders left of the fire , Ninian sat there , pondering on the charge he had undertaken , on all that lay before him to ...
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Ansted's answered Ninian Armadale asked beautiful better Chester Terrace child Cloth cousin Rachel creature cried Tinie dear door Edges and Gilt Edinburgh Edmund eyes face fancy father feel felt girl glad Gowans grave Half Calf hand happy heard heart Heaven Helensburgh Hope Ansted Hope's husband Jane Sedley John Forsyth JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY JOHN S. C. Abbott Kenneth knew Lady Ulverston lassie laugh Lindsay little Walter marriage married mind Miss Ansted Miss Græme Miss Reay mother Musselburgh never night Ninian Græme Ninian looked Ninian thought once passion paused perhaps poor professor quiet Rachel Armstrong round scarcely seemed silent sister smile speak stood strange sure sweet talk tell tenderness thing Tinie's to-night told took turned Ulver Uncut Edges utter voice walked watching whispered wife wish woman word young
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Página 246 - ALL people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice ; Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell ; Come ye before him and rejoice.
Página 168 - Work — work — work! It is the iron ploughshare that goes over the field of the heart, rooting up all the pretty grasses, and the beautiful, hurtful weeds that we have taken such pleasure in growing, laying them all under, fair and foul together — making plain, dull-looking arable land for our neighbours to peer at ; until at night-time, down in the deep furrows the angels come and sow.