Blacksmith and scholar, by Mortimer and Frances Collins. 1883Chatto and Windus, 1883 |
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Page 85
... Rougemont's hounds were to meet at Oak Royal by special invitation . Alice had never seen the young Earl , who had called on her father on his accession to Oak Royal when she chanced to be away . She had never even seen a meet of hounds ...
... Rougemont's hounds were to meet at Oak Royal by special invitation . Alice had never seen the young Earl , who had called on her father on his accession to Oak Royal when she chanced to be away . She had never even seen a meet of hounds ...
Page 86
... Rougemont . He liked yachting , racing , hunting , shooting . He hated - or , rather , he did not un- derstand or want to understand - politics , theology , science , literature . He read no books ; he opened no newspapers . He voted in ...
... Rougemont . He liked yachting , racing , hunting , shooting . He hated - or , rather , he did not un- derstand or want to understand - politics , theology , science , literature . He read no books ; he opened no newspapers . He voted in ...
Page 87
... Rougemont , and believed he was not such a fool as he professed to be . The time might come , he thought , when the young Earl , having exhausted Newmarket and broken his collar - bone over a stiff fence , would settle down steadfastly ...
... Rougemont , and believed he was not such a fool as he professed to be . The time might come , he thought , when the young Earl , having exhausted Newmarket and broken his collar - bone over a stiff fence , would settle down steadfastly ...
Page 89
Mortimer Collins. the fox from utter mutilation ; and then came Lord Rougemont , who was amazed to see Alice in at ... Rouge- mont . I have only ridden along the roads in a jog - trot way before . To be carried over a hedge as I was took ...
Mortimer Collins. the fox from utter mutilation ; and then came Lord Rougemont , who was amazed to see Alice in at ... Rouge- mont . I have only ridden along the roads in a jog - trot way before . To be carried over a hedge as I was took ...
Page 90
... Rougemont . You will come in , I hope . " They had just reached the gateway of Oak Royal . 66 " I am much in a humour to come in , " he said , " to tell Mr. Fitz Roy of your unequalled exploits . You have won the brush of the oldest fox ...
... Rougemont . You will come in , I hope . " They had just reached the gateway of Oak Royal . 66 " I am much in a humour to come in , " he said , " to tell Mr. Fitz Roy of your unequalled exploits . You have won the brush of the oldest fox ...
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Page 193 - With gates of silver and bars of gold Ye have fenced my sheep from their Father's fold ; I have heard the dropping of their tears In heaven these eighteen hundred years.
Page 201 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 195 - Ward has no heart, they say; but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
Page 202 - Lord ! methought, what pain it was to drown ! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears ! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
Page 27 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
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