Delicia, by the author of Miss MollyWilliam Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London, 1879 - 370 páginas |
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... wonder , that with her natural unsociability , Delicia had contrived to make a friend of Cicely Arbuthnot ? Yet perhaps , after all , there was small cause for wonder ; the very dissimilarity might have proved the attraction . young ...
... wonder , that with her natural unsociability , Delicia had contrived to make a friend of Cicely Arbuthnot ? Yet perhaps , after all , there was small cause for wonder ; the very dissimilarity might have proved the attraction . young ...
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... wonder that she deluded herself , and mistook her smattering of accomplishments for talent- genius even - and her quick answers for wit , and was in consequence often more pleased with herself than there was any cause to warrant ? But ...
... wonder that she deluded herself , and mistook her smattering of accomplishments for talent- genius even - and her quick answers for wit , and was in consequence often more pleased with herself than there was any cause to warrant ? But ...
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... wonder he was not here to - night , for I did not see him yesterday . " Miss Arbuthnot did not note the blush that ac- companied the words - words significant enough in themselves , surely , to any one but a girl wrapped up in her own ...
... wonder he was not here to - night , for I did not see him yesterday . " Miss Arbuthnot did not note the blush that ac- companied the words - words significant enough in themselves , surely , to any one but a girl wrapped up in her own ...
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... wonder whether to the listening but dis- interested ears of our brother has been borne the intelligence that the fair Delicia carries a money- bag in either shapely hand ! " As the door was opened at that moment , no 40 DELICIA .
... wonder whether to the listening but dis- interested ears of our brother has been borne the intelligence that the fair Delicia carries a money- bag in either shapely hand ! " As the door was opened at that moment , no 40 DELICIA .
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... wonder you never mentioned her at home . " " I never spoke to her until to - night . " " She seemed to have a good deal to say for herself . " " Yes ; I took a great fancy to her the first time I saw her there is so much in her face ...
... wonder you never mentioned her at home . " " I never spoke to her until to - night . " " She seemed to have a good deal to say for herself . " " Yes ; I took a great fancy to her the first time I saw her there is so much in her face ...
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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