Delicia, by the author of Miss MollyWilliam Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London, 1879 - 370 páginas |
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... flickering firelight , nearer thirty than twenty . Does that cause your interest in her to die out at once I fear , to many it will . To those many who care only for the lilies and roses of extreme youth THE HOUR . 3.
... flickering firelight , nearer thirty than twenty . Does that cause your interest in her to die out at once I fear , to many it will . To those many who care only for the lilies and roses of extreme youth THE HOUR . 3.
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... caused those who had known Mr Russell in his youth , to marvel at this proof that he had died unforgiving , even as he had lived , was not likely to prove of any consequence , seeing that the waves of this trouble- some world had long ...
... caused those who had known Mr Russell in his youth , to marvel at this proof that he had died unforgiving , even as he had lived , was not likely to prove of any consequence , seeing that the waves of this trouble- some world had long ...
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... from its women audience ; and men , as a rule , being fortresses that like not to be taken by storm , but prefer a wily enemy who will cause them to surrender foot by foot , had not seen much to care for in her , she not being 8 DELICIA .
... from its women audience ; and men , as a rule , being fortresses that like not to be taken by storm , but prefer a wily enemy who will cause them to surrender foot by foot , had not seen much to care for in her , she not being 8 DELICIA .
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... cause for wonder ; the very dissimilarity might have proved the attraction . young , so pretty - so very pretty , some people said . -and motherless ; small wonder was it that Deli- cia's empty heart , remembering her own desolate ...
... cause for wonder ; the very dissimilarity might have proved the attraction . young , so pretty - so very pretty , some people said . -and motherless ; small wonder was it that Deli- cia's empty heart , remembering her own desolate ...
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... cause . For she is indeed very pretty . Brown hair with red gleams in it , brown . eyes , a slight figure , and pretty hands which she had a trick of moving about in a graceful , un - English fashion : what more could any man , or woman ...
... cause . For she is indeed very pretty . Brown hair with red gleams in it , brown . eyes , a slight figure , and pretty hands which she had a trick of moving about in a graceful , un - English fashion : what more could any man , or woman ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
amused Anne Square answer asked Betty's Blackwood's Magazine bright Christopher Cicely Arbuthnot Cicely's cloth colour cried Crown 8vo Cyril Stevens Daniel Deronda dark dear Delicia Mainwaring door down-stairs drawing-room Elizabeth Stevens Elliot Engravings face fancy father Fcap feel French morocco Fullerton GEORGE ELIOT girl glad good-bye hand happy head heart hope hour Illustrations J. G. Lockhart Jessie John Galt knew late laughed lifted light listening look mind minute Miss Arbuthnot Miss Mainwaring Miss Mainwaring's Miss Stevens never night once paused perhaps Philip Rayton pity pleasant post 8vo pretty question round Scotland Second Edition seemed sister smile sorrow speak spoke stood story sure Susy sympathy talk tears tell thing Third Edition thought tion told tone trouble turned University of Edinburgh voice vols whilst wife wish woman wonder words young
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