The Only Daughter: A Domestic Story, Volume 2Colburn, 1839 |
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... voice with a slightly foreign accent , the owner of which could not possibly have survived the juvenility of seventeen . " I remember he used to pull my bouquets to pieces every night at Naples . - Ah ! they are not so easily 2 THE ONLY ...
... voice with a slightly foreign accent , the owner of which could not possibly have survived the juvenility of seventeen . " I remember he used to pull my bouquets to pieces every night at Naples . - Ah ! they are not so easily 2 THE ONLY ...
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... voice , perfectly well modulated , but with , nevertheless , a spice of scorn and bitterness in its inflection . " So much the better , " returned her lady- ship . " I trust my children know their duty to themselves better than to offer ...
... voice , perfectly well modulated , but with , nevertheless , a spice of scorn and bitterness in its inflection . " So much the better , " returned her lady- ship . " I trust my children know their duty to themselves better than to offer ...
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... voice even for the trifle she performed , yet they had been too carefully taught to allow of their singing being disagree- able , and so they sang together , and in turn for the remainder of the evening . Helen was en- treated by Lady ...
... voice even for the trifle she performed , yet they had been too carefully taught to allow of their singing being disagree- able , and so they sang together , and in turn for the remainder of the evening . Helen was en- treated by Lady ...
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... voices , as Ruth pushed the harp aside , " one more song - only one ; if you have any generosity , do not resign the instrument so soon . - Lord Harewood , you have both influence and authority , do exert them in the general cause ...
... voices , as Ruth pushed the harp aside , " one more song - only one ; if you have any generosity , do not resign the instrument so soon . - Lord Harewood , you have both influence and authority , do exert them in the general cause ...
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... voice . " Wealth I have not - the terms of Lady Harewood's will leave me as poor as when I bartered the rank she sought for it ; and though I exult in the surrender of that which I was never in myself base enough to aim at appropriating ...
... voice . " Wealth I have not - the terms of Lady Harewood's will leave me as poor as when I bartered the rank she sought for it ; and though I exult in the surrender of that which I was never in myself base enough to aim at appropriating ...
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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.