Annie Nelles: Or, The Life of a Book Agent. An Autobiography |
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Accordingly Annie arrived asked Atlanta aunt Silvie better book agent brother called canvass Captain Lake cause Chicago child Chillicothe Cincinnati comfort copies dear death decided dollars dreaded endured entire Eugene Mason eyes father fearful feel felt Fessenden finally forever Frank friends give gone hand happy heart History of Freemasonry hope husband Indianapolis induce kind kindly knew labor lady Lawn Ridge learned leave Lebanon living look madam marriage married Martha Hart Mason matter Michigan City mind misery Mishawaka morning mother Nelles ness never night once passed Peoria Peoria county pleasant poor present Princeville reader replied Robert Nelles seemed sell soon sorrow Southport stay subscribers sure tell thank thing Thorntown thought tion told took true wanted Waukegan week wife woman word wrong
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Page 20 - HARK! from the tombs a doleful sound! My ears attend the cry; " Ye living men, come view the ground, Where you must shortly lie. 2 " Princes, this clay must be your bed, In spite of all your towers; The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
Page 234 - Honor and fame from no condition rise ; Act well your part — there all the honor lies.
Page 27 - Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die.
Page 384 - Lake a clankless chain enthralling, — Like the sleepless dreams that mock, — Like the frigid ice-drops falling From the surf-surrounded rock. Such the cold and sickening feeling Thou hast caused this heart to know, Stabbed the deeper by concealing From the world its bitter woe. Once it fondly, proudly deemed thee All that fancy's self could paint, Once it honored and esteemed thee, As its idol and its saint ! More than woman thou wast to me ; Not as man I looked on thee ; — Why like woman then...
Page 20 - T is but the voice that Jesus sends, To call them to his arms. 2 Are we not tending upward too, As fast as time can move 1 Nor should we wish the hours more slow To keep us from our love.
Page 115 - ... military committee in 1850 ; but this office he resigned in the following year, in order that he might compete for the presidency of the State of Mississippi, in which aim, however, he failed. He was secretary of war at Washington from 1853 to 1857, under President Pierce ; and then simply a senator until 1860. The election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, in the autumn of the last-named year, gave a definite direction to Mr. Davis's energy of character. The Democrats or...
Page 379 - They were as glad to see me as I was to see them, and I was very soon let into the matter of the joke that had convulsed them.
Page 196 - I do not like you, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know full well, I do not like you, Doctor Fell.
Page 385 - tis useless to upbraid thee With thy past or present state, — What thou wast — my fancy made thee ; What thou art — I know too late.
Page 384 - And in words my vengence wreak. But there is a silent sorrow, Which can find no vent in speech, Which disdains relief to borrow From the heights that song can reach. € Like a clankless chain enthralling, Like the sleepless dreams that mock, Like the frigid ice-drops falling From the surf-surrounding rock.