The Only Daughter: A Domestic Story, Volume 2Colburn, 1839 |
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... success to render her ci - devant swain at ease with himself and her . She did not revert to the scenes of lang syne with which she had found it so easy , and so pleasant , to recommence her intimacy with Caroline , but she included him ...
... success to render her ci - devant swain at ease with himself and her . She did not revert to the scenes of lang syne with which she had found it so easy , and so pleasant , to recommence her intimacy with Caroline , but she included him ...
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... success ; so give me some tea , for as Meg Merrilies hath it , I am both fou and fastin . ' ووو 6 Helen poured out a cup and handed it to him , while her father showered questions upon the breathless traveller , which one glance of his ...
... success ; so give me some tea , for as Meg Merrilies hath it , I am both fou and fastin . ' ووو 6 Helen poured out a cup and handed it to him , while her father showered questions upon the breathless traveller , which one glance of his ...
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... success- ful than searches in general from the Peri downwards . " " For shame , my Lord , " answered Ruth play- fully , " that is a more cynical speech than I ever dreamt of hearing from you ; and enough to 60 THE ONLY DAUGHTER .
... success- ful than searches in general from the Peri downwards . " " For shame , my Lord , " answered Ruth play- fully , " that is a more cynical speech than I ever dreamt of hearing from you ; and enough to 60 THE ONLY DAUGHTER .
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... success- ful . " His Lordship smiled - but it was not the smile and advancing to a window at the ex- tremity of the great drawing - room , laid his hand upon the sash- " A Gordian knot may be cut at all events , " said he , and would ...
... success- ful . " His Lordship smiled - but it was not the smile and advancing to a window at the ex- tremity of the great drawing - room , laid his hand upon the sash- " A Gordian knot may be cut at all events , " said he , and would ...
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... success in the attempt to establish a footing of kindly familiarity between Helen and himself , was testified by her cloudless eyes , and the soft musical laugh that followed every lively pic- ture , or sportive anecdote . She was ...
... success in the attempt to establish a footing of kindly familiarity between Helen and himself , was testified by her cloudless eyes , and the soft musical laugh that followed every lively pic- ture , or sportive anecdote . She was ...
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affection agony answered Helen asked aunt Katie beauty blush breath burst Captain St Caroline Caroline Munro castle cheek cold Colonel Faulcon Colonel Faulconbridge conbridge confess cousin dance dare daugh dear Helen dear Ruth dearest dinner drawing-room Dunardoch earnest eyes face fair fancied fate feelings felt flung forehead friendship gaiety gentle glance gratitude half hand happiness Harewood House heart Hector Helen rose Hemingsley honour hope hour Kilmore Lady Munro Ladyship laughing Leger letter Lillias loch Lord Harewood Major Tracy ment METASTASIO Miss Annesley Miss Campbell Miss Munro Monzievar morning ness never night offer once pale pang party passion quadrille rendered replied Roderick Drummond rose Ruth Annesley Ruth's scarcely Scotland seated seemed shadow silence Sir Evan skaiting smile solitude sorrow spirit suffering sympathy tears tell thought tion tone turned voice vows words wounded wretchedness
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Page 1 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 191 - And blushed and smiled the tale to hear, Poured from her dark-eyed cavalier ; And yet, I too must moralize, Albeit with gentler sympathies, Of all my own fond heart can tell Of love's despair, and love's farewell, — Its many miseries ; — its tears, Like lava, not like dew ; — its fears, That make hope painful ; — then its trust, So often trampled in the dust ; — Neglected, blighted, and betrayed, A sorrow and a mockery made ! Then change and adverse fortune, all That binds and keeps sweet...
Page 245 - The Gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid, That rightly think'st and hast most rightly said.