Tales and Novels, Volumes 5-6Harper & Brothers, 1888 |
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admiration almshouse ancholy believe better Bettesworth bless brother brother O'Toole Cæsar called Captain Cecilia Christy Crawley cried Crumpe Darford daugh dear Delamere Devereux door Earl of Glenthorn Ellinor ennui exertions Fanny father favour feelings felt Folingsby fortune Frank Frankland gentleman Germaine give Glenthorn Castle guineas hand happy head hear heard heart hope horse Hungerford indolence Ireland Irish Jessy Joe Kelly justice of peace knew Lady Geraldine Lady Glenthorn ladyship Lake of Killarney lard live look Lord Craiglethorpe Lord Glenthorn Lord O'Toole Lord Y lordship M'Leod manner married mind morning mother Murad never night opinion Ormsby Villa Patty plase your honour pleasure poor recollect Saladin scarcely servants Sherwood Park soon speak sure Swanlinbar talk tell there's thing thought tion told took voice wife wish woman words young
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Página 178 - Your golden wings, now hovering o'er him, shed Protection; now are waving in applause To that blest son of foresight! lord of fate! That awful independent on to-morrow! Whose work is done; who triumphs in the past; Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile; Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly; That common but opprobrious lot!
Página 222 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
Página 105 - There is a case where a woman may coquet justifiably to the utmost verge which her conscience will allow. It is where a gentleman purposely declines to make his addresses, till such time as he thinks himself perfectly sure of her consent.
Página 119 - ... forming all together a perpendicular height of one hundred and seventy feet, from the base of which the promontory, covered over with rock and grass, slopes down to the sea, for the space of two hundred feet more: making, in all, a mass of near four hundred feet in height, which, in the beauty and variety of its colouring, in elegance and novelty of arrangement, and in the extraordinary magnificence of its objects, cannot be rivalled'.
Página 170 - She now expected to outshine her competitor, and desired that the chest should be unpacked in her presence. In taking out one of the gowns, it caught on a nail in the lid, and was torn. The lady, roused from her natural indolence by this disappointment to her vanity, instantly ordered that the unfortunate female slave should be severely chastised. The woman was the wife of Hector ; and this fresh injury worked up his temper, naturally vindictive, to the highest point. He ardently longed for the....
Página 156 - In this situation he is seized on by the sheriff's officer, " forcibly separated from his wife and children, dragged to " public auction, purchased by a stranger, and perhaps sent " to terminate his miserable existence in the mines of " Mexico, excluded for ever from the light of heaven ; and " all this without any crime or demerit on his part, real or " pretended ! He is punished because his master is unfor
Página 160 - Kindness was new to him; it overpowered his manly heart; and, at hearing the words "my good friend," the tears gushed from his eyes: tears which no torture could have extorted! Gratitude swelled in his bosom; and he longed to be alone, that he might freely yield to his emotions. He was glad when the conch-shell sounded to call the negroes to their daily labour, that he might relieve the sensations of his soul by bodily exertion. He performed his task in silence; and an inattentive observer might...
Página 11 - I declined doing, because I believed that I should draw down upon my head some dreadful calamity, if I voluntarily relinquished the talisman. Irritated by my refusal, the lady, according to the custom of her sex, became more resolute in her purpose; but neither entreaties nor money could change my determination. Provoked beyond measure at my obstinacy, as she called it, she left the house. "On...
Página 197 - ... the faces of his friends from whom he may have borrowed money, reduced to the meanest tricks and subterfuges to delay or avoid the payment of his just debts, till, ultimately grown familiar with falsehood, and at enmity with the world, he loses all the grace and dignity of man.
Página 160 - ... the tears gushed from his eyes: tears which no torture could have extorted! Gratitude swelled in his bosom; and he longed to be alone, that he might freely yield to his emotions. He was glad when the conch-shell sounded to call the negroes to their daily labour, that he might relieve the sensations of his soul by bodily exertion. He performed his task in silence; and an inattentive observer might have thought him sullen. In fact, he was impatient for the day to be over, that he might get rid...