The Frozen Deep and Other TalesChatto and Windus, 1875 - 322 páginas The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous expeditions, mysterious visions and life-threatening circumstances. The end is as surprising and unexpected as we are (or are not) accustomed to in Collins' books. |
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... CHANCE PERCY FAIRBANK MRS . FAIRBANK ... ( Ostler ) . ( His mother ) . ( His aunt ) . ... ... ( His master and mistress ) . JOSEPH RIGOBERT ... ALICIA WARLOCK ... ... ( His fellow - servant ) . ( His wife ) . PERIOD THE PRESENT TIME ...
... CHANCE PERCY FAIRBANK MRS . FAIRBANK ... ( Ostler ) . ( His mother ) . ( His aunt ) . ... ... ( His master and mistress ) . JOSEPH RIGOBERT ... ALICIA WARLOCK ... ... ( His fellow - servant ) . ( His wife ) . PERIOD THE PRESENT TIME ...
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... aunt Chance had never been out of Scotland until she came to keep house with my mother after her husband's death . And when she opened her lips you heard broad Scotch , I can tell you , if ever you heard it yet ! As it fell out , there ...
... aunt Chance had never been out of Scotland until she came to keep house with my mother after her husband's death . And when she opened her lips you heard broad Scotch , I can tell you , if ever you heard it yet ! As it fell out , there ...
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... sister , Mrs. Chance . While we were trying hard to convince each other , my aunt Chance sat as dumb as a fish , stirring her tea and thinking her own thoughts . When we made our appeal to her , she seemed , as it were , to wake up ...
... sister , Mrs. Chance . While we were trying hard to convince each other , my aunt Chance sat as dumb as a fish , stirring her tea and thinking her own thoughts . When we made our appeal to her , she seemed , as it were , to wake up ...
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... aunt Chance believed in Providence working by way of the cards . " Whether you are right , Francie , or your mither ... aunt Chance , to own the truth , had inherited , through her late husband , a pension of thirty pounds a year . This ...
... aunt Chance believed in Providence working by way of the cards . " Whether you are right , Francie , or your mither ... aunt Chance , to own the truth , had inherited , through her late husband , a pension of thirty pounds a year . This ...
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... aunt in a half circle . The card which happened to lay outermost , at the ... aunt . ' I count seven cairds fra ' richt to left ; and I humbly ask a blessing on what ... Chance wouldn't listen . She treated my interpretation with contempt ...
... aunt in a half circle . The card which happened to lay outermost , at the ... aunt . ' I count seven cairds fra ' richt to left ; and I humbly ask a blessing on what ... Chance wouldn't listen . She treated my interpretation with contempt ...
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Aldersley ALFRED CONCANEN Ambrose and Silas answered Arctic asked aunt Chance beautiful boat-house bones brother Captain Helding Clara cloth extra confession Cray Crown 8vo dear doctor door dream Edition English Engravings Expedition eyes face Facsimile Fairbank Fcap feel folio Francis Raven Frank Frozen Deep gilt edges hand happened hear heard horse imperial 4to Imperial 8vo J. R. PLANCHÉ John Jago John Want knife lady laudanum leave Lefrank living mind Miss Burnham Miss Meadowcroft morning morocco Morwick Farm mother murder Naomi Narrabee never night officers passed plainly Plates Portrait question replied Richard Wardour Rigobert round says the captain Sea-Mew side Silas Meadowcroft silence Sir NOEL PATON Somerset Herald speak spoke Steventon stick stopped story suddenly tell tion told took turned voice Vols waiting Wanderer whispered wife WILKIE COLLINS woman words
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Página 310 - As Pretty as Seven, and other German Stories. Collected by LUDWIG BECHSTEIN. With Additional Tales by the Brothers GRIMM, and 100 Illusts.
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