The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... Lady Cecilia was waiting for me on my arrival , as lively and as agreeable as ever . She is enchanted that Armine and her husband will not be in town for some months ; and declares that the Herberts are just the sort of humdrum people ...
... Lady Cecilia was waiting for me on my arrival , as lively and as agreeable as ever . She is enchanted that Armine and her husband will not be in town for some months ; and declares that the Herberts are just the sort of humdrum people ...
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... Lady Ce- cilia . What multitudes of people ! Yet they say there will be no one in town till after Easter ; and nothing go- ing on till the end of May . The " nothing , " so called , consists , however , in nightly parties , twice as ...
... Lady Ce- cilia . What multitudes of people ! Yet they say there will be no one in town till after Easter ; and nothing go- ing on till the end of May . The " nothing , " so called , consists , however , in nightly parties , twice as ...
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... Lady Cecilia , that her dressmaker had sent me home a frightful gown . " Mad " She was quite right , " replied my friend . ame Biais saw that you would be a bad customer , and did not put herself out of the way to please you . ” " A bad ...
... Lady Cecilia , that her dressmaker had sent me home a frightful gown . " Mad " She was quite right , " replied my friend . ame Biais saw that you would be a bad customer , and did not put herself out of the way to please you . ” " A bad ...
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... Lady Cecilia , rising to take leave , " than you seem to have had wit to discover . The man has a gift of solemn irony , which victimizes even the most wary . But for the di- version he has found in making game of the Percy by his ...
... Lady Cecilia , rising to take leave , " than you seem to have had wit to discover . The man has a gift of solemn irony , which victimizes even the most wary . But for the di- version he has found in making game of the Percy by his ...
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... Lady Cecilia Delaval to old Lady Kent's card - party , I was much amused by the uneasy manner in which she was addressed by a certain Lady Mardynville , -evidently in an agony lest Lady Cis should present the 66 new woman " to her ...
... Lady Cecilia Delaval to old Lady Kent's card - party , I was much amused by the uneasy manner in which she was addressed by a certain Lady Mardynville , -evidently in an agony lest Lady Cis should present the 66 new woman " to her ...
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Página 216 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Página 217 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth: —It is the hour of feeling. One moment now may give us more Than years of toiling reason: Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season.
Página 34 - They act as conductors to the storms usually hovering in the air. The man forced to remain at home, and vent his crossness on his wife and children, is a much worse animal to bear with than the man who grumbles his way to Pall Mall, and not daring to swear at the club-servants, or knock about the club-furniture, becomes socialised into decency. Nothing like the subordination exercised in a community of equals for reducing a fiery temper.