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Anne Silvester Anne's answered appeared Arnold Brinkworth asked Bapchild Bishopriggs Blanche Blanche's brother chair cottage Craig Fernie cried dear Dela door eyes face feel Fulham garden gentleman Geof Geoffrey Delamayn Geoffrey's Glasgow Glenarm gone Ham Farm hand happened head hear heard Hester Dethridge hour husband Inchbare interest Julius Karnegie Kirkandrew Lady Holchester Lady Lundie ladyship landlady lawyer leave letter living London looked Lundie's Marchwood marriage married matter mean mind Miss Silvester morning never niece night once opened passed Patrick pointed Patrick rose Perry person Perth position question reply returned rick rose round Scotland servant side silence Sir Patrick speak Speedwell stairs stopped summer-house Swanhaven tell thing thought tion told took turned uncle Vanborough voice waited whispered wife window Windygates woman words write young
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Page 221 - Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground : for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Page 77 - Say first - for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of Hell - say first what cause Moved our grand Parents, in that happy state, Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress His will For one restraint, lords of the world besides.
Page 76 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 77 - that there is somebody in the room besides ourselves." Blanche shrugged her shoulders contemptuously. "What does Tie matter?" she asked. "What does he know or care about Anne?" There was only one other chance of diverting her from the delicate subject. Arnold went on reading headlong, two lines in advance of the place at which he had left off, with more sound and less sense than ever : "In the beginning how the heavens and earth. Eose out of Chaos or if Sion hill — " At "Sion hill," Blanche interrupted...
Page 204 - After reflecting for a moment, Geoffrey put a last question. " You said Bishopriggs and the woman would be here at six this evening. " "Yes." " Where are they to be found before that?
Page 26 - OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.
Page 90 - ... no form or ceremony, civil or religious, no notice before or publication after, no consummation or cohabitation, no writing, no witnesses even are essential to the constitution of this, the most important contract which two private parties can enter into, whether as affecting their domestic arrangements or the pecuniary interests of themselves and their families.
Page 38 - You goto the tea- shop and get your moist sugar. You take it on the understanding that it is moist sugar. But it isn't anything of the sort. It's a compound of adulterations made up to look like sugar. You shut your eyes to that awkward fact, and swallow your adulterated mess in various articles of food ; and you and your sugar get on together in that way as well as you can. Do you follow me, so far?" Yes, Arnold (quite in the dark) followed so far. "Very good,