Stray leaves from shady placesRoutledge, 1853 - 402 pages |
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acquaintance affection Agnes Agnes Macdonald Aimington Andrew Macdonald beautiful believe bright eyes Brown called Caroline carriage Catherine Joyce character cheek child chintz daughter dear Dixon dream dress early emotion exclaimed expression eyes Fanny Greyleigh father feelings felt Florentia fortune Geoffrey Smith George West Geraldine Harmer Geraldine's girl hair hand happiness Hardwick heart Hester honour hope hour husband intuitive knowledge knew Lady Lucy Lady Macdonald Lady Shafton letter Lionel Weymouth looked Love Punch Margaret Clifford marriage married Mary mean mind Miss mistress morning mother muslin nature never once passed passion pause perhaps poor pride racter Rayton replied returned rich round scene seemed selfish servants sister smile Smith sorrow spoke strange sure Susan sympathy tears tell thing thought told trembling Trevor Sefton truth Walter Hardwick wife woman wonder words young youth
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Page 208 - To aid thy mind's development, to watch Thy dawn of little joys, to sit and see Almost thy very growth, to view thee catch Knowledge of objects, — wonders yet to thee ! To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee, And print on thy soft cheek a parent's kiss, — This, it should seem, was not reserved for me ; Yet this was in my nature : as it is, I know not what is there, yet something like to this.
Page 318 - And it is of you I have been frightened ! ' cried Lady Lucy, clinging to his hand. ' You who I thought would never make any excuses for faults you yourself could not have committed ! ' • ' I have never been tempted.' ' Have I ? I dare not say so.' ' Tell me how it all came about,' said Mr. Ferrars, drawing her to him, ' tell me from the beginning.' But his gentleness unnerved her — she felt choking — loosened the collar of her dress for breathing space — and gave him the knowledge he asked...
Page 131 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume...
Page 237 - That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a
Page 55 - With a less bitter leaven of sure despair Than these words — ' I loved ONCE.' And who saith, ' I loved ONCE ' ? Not angels, — whose clear eyes, love, love foresee, Love, through eternity, And by To Love do apprehend To Be.
Page 311 - Bon jour miladi Lucy, ' she exclaimed as she entered Lady Lucy's sanctum, ' need not inquire of health, you look si charmante. Oh, si belle ! — that make you wear old clothes so longer dan oder ladies, and have so leetel for me to buy. Milady Lucy Ferrars know she look well in anyting, but yet she should not wear old clothes : no right — for example — for de trade, and de hoosband always like de wife well dressed — ha — ha ! ' Poor Lady Lucy ! Too sick at heart to have any relish for Madame...
Page 311 - Antoinette,' but she was really an English Jewess of low extraction, whose true name was Sarah Solomons. Her ' profession ' was to purchase — and sell — the cast-off apparel of ladies of fashion ; and few of the sisterhood have carried the art of double cheating to so great a proficiency. With always a roll of...
Page 321 - To think that I could have doubted — that I could have feared you!" sobbed Lady Lucy, as tears of joy coursed down her cheeks. " But, Walter, it is not every husband who would have shown such generosity." " I think there are few husbands, Lucy, who do not estimate truth and candour as among the chief of conjugal virtues : — ah, had you confided in me when first you felt the bondage of debt, how much anguish would have been spared you !
Page 366 - ... presides to mismatch the assorted pairs, It might be fancy, but each thought there was a slight quiver in the voice of the other, and a modulation that made the tone different from that of ordinary discourse. There was something, too, in the solemn grandeur of the moon-lit ocean that well accorded with the sentiment which ruled the hour; for if the loveliness of nature fails among coarser clay to awaken the loftiest sympathies of humanity, its contemplation always "feeds the flame
Page 24 - To show us what a woman true may be : They have not taken sympathy from thee, Nor made thee any other than thou wast, Save as some tree, which, in a sudden blast, Sheddcth those blossoms, that are weakly grown, Upon the air, but keepeth every one Whose strength gives warrant of good fruit at last...