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acquaintance answered Harley aunt baronet began beggar begged bless called Cassell's CHAPTER Cheap Edition cheek companions countenance curate daughter dear door E. W. HORNUNG Edwards Emily face father feel fortune FRANK STOCKTON gazed girl go to heaven hand happiness Harley's heart HENRY MACKENZIE honour humour Illustrated imagine J. M. BARRIE journey KEARTON King Henry VI leave live London look lost Ludgate Hill master MAX PEMBERTON mind misfortunes Miss Walton mistress Mountford nature never night observed People's Edition perhaps Peter physiognomy pleasure PLUTARCH prudence R. L. STEVENSON Respino returned RICHARD HAKLUYT round sentiments servant sighed silence Silton Sir Harry Benson Sir ROBERT BALL smile soon STANLEY WEYMAN stood stranger tears tell things thought told took turned vanity virtue Vols waiter walked Winbrooke wretch young gentleman young lady
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Page 153 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
Page 45 - because,' said he, ' I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest misery with which our nature is afflicted to every idle visitant who can afford a trifling perquisite to the keeper, especially as it is a distress which the humane must see with the painful reflection that it is not in their power to alleviate it.
Page 118 - ... you may remember stood on the left side of the yard ; he was wont to bask in the sun there; when he had reached that spot, he stopped ; we went on ; I called to him, he wagged his tail, but did not stir: I called again, he lay down : I whistled, and cried Trusty ; he gave a short howl, and died ! I could have lain down and died too, but God gave me strengtli to live for my children.
Page 120 - ... battery. His fine was hard upon us to pay ; we contrived however to live the worse for it, and make up the loss by our frugality: but the justice was not content with that punishment, and soon after had an opportunity of punishing us indeed.
Page 137 - Harley's family as valet, butler, and gardener, had orders to furnish him with parcels of the different seeds he chose to sow in it. I have seen his master at work in this little spot, with his coat off, and his dibble in his hand : it was a scene of tranquil virtue to have stopped an angel on his errands of mercy ! Harley had contrived to lead a little bubbling brook through a green walk in the middle of the ground, upon which he had erected a mill in miniature for the diversion of Edwards...
Page 174 - He seized her hand — a languid colour reddened his cheek — a smile brightened faintly in his eye. As he gazed on her, it grew dim, it fixed, it closed — He sighed and fell back on his seat — Miss Walton screamed at the sight — His aunt and...
Page xiii - I found it a bundle of little episodes, put together without art, and of no importance on the whole, with something of nature, and little else in them.
Page 176 - ... a second time : I could observe his lips move as he looked ; but the voice they would have uttered was lost. He attempted going again ; and a third time he returned as before. I saw him wipe his cheek ; then, covering his face with his hands, his breast heaving with the most convulsive throbs, he flung out of the room.
Page 127 - Edwards, said he, let me hold thee to my bosom ; let me imprint the virtue of thy sufferings on my soul. Come, my honoured veteran ! let me endeavour to soften the last days of a life worn out in the service of humanity : call me also thy son, and let me cherish thee as a father.
Page 173 - He sighed as he spoke these last words. He had scarcely finished them, when the door opened, and his aunt appeared, leading in Miss Walton. " My dear," says she, " here is Miss Walton, who has been so kind as to come and inquire for you herself.