The Canon's Ward, Volume 3

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Chatto and Windus, 1884

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Página 85 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; — To me that cup has been dealt in another measure...
Página 162 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers!
Página 61 - He had always esteemed his sister ; but, as he now confessed to himself, for these many years he had been entertaining an angel unawares. ' If you have taken me for something even weaker than I am...
Página 232 - salting" the mine. There is a warrant out for Dawson's apprehension upon a much more serious charge—but, as regards the mine, there is no doubt that Adair is implicated.
Página 94 - Irishman may allow a bottle of whisky toescape temporarily from his hands ; her mind once fixed upon the matter, she was never satisfied till she got to the bottom of it. ' It is right to pray Heaven to bless your parents, is it not, Stevie? ' ' Of course it is, my dear—that is, when you have any,' added Stevie, with a sudden recollection that he was unprovided for in that respect.
Página 285 - These voluntary exiles knew nothing of what was going on in the world, and their dearest hope was that that ignorance should be reciprocal.

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