A Point of ConscienceJ.B. Lippincott, 1895 - 311 pages |
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... return has Jinnie's governess brought Jinnie into her explanations . It seems a sort of making use of the child that is distinctly distasteful to Mrs. Verschoyle . Jinnie is one of the class rightly termed " enfants terribles , " but ...
... return has Jinnie's governess brought Jinnie into her explanations . It seems a sort of making use of the child that is distinctly distasteful to Mrs. Verschoyle . Jinnie is one of the class rightly termed " enfants terribles , " but ...
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... returns Mr. Popkin , as if responding to an inquiry about his health . " Ever since Lady Maria has consented to take a stall , things have been almost flourishin ' , still the workin ' up of it is very fatiguin ' . " Mr. Popkin disdains ...
... returns Mr. Popkin , as if responding to an inquiry about his health . " Ever since Lady Maria has consented to take a stall , things have been almost flourishin ' , still the workin ' up of it is very fatiguin ' . " Mr. Popkin disdains ...
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... returns he , in perfect good- humour , " or " -he pauses- " anyone else , for the matter of that . " " Oh , but you soon will , " returns she . She makes a little grimace and accompanies it with a shrug of her shoulders . As she does so ...
... returns he , in perfect good- humour , " or " -he pauses- " anyone else , for the matter of that . " " Oh , but you soon will , " returns she . She makes a little grimace and accompanies it with a shrug of her shoulders . As she does so ...
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... returns she , bitterly . " Do you know I was going to suggest that , " says he , with a delightful air of surprise . " A breeze off a river is always so cool . " To this she makes no reply , and he , watching her , half earnestly , half ...
... returns she , bitterly . " Do you know I was going to suggest that , " says he , with a delightful air of surprise . " A breeze off a river is always so cool . " To this she makes no reply , and he , watching her , half earnestly , half ...
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... returns he , with the lover - like ardour he finds it so easy to assume . As a fact , however , he had been feeling a little uncertain as to her com- ing at all , for the past five minutes , and , to his own surprise , a little ...
... returns he , with the lover - like ardour he finds it so easy to assume . As a fact , however , he had been feeling a little uncertain as to her com- ing at all , for the past five minutes , and , to his own surprise , a little ...
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Page 106 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, • But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die...
Page 249 - Ah yet would God this flesh of mine might be Where air might wash and long leaves cover me, Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea. Ah yet would God that stems and roots were bred Out of my weary body and my head, That sleep were sealed upon me with a seal, And I were as the least of all his dead.
Page 202 - tis true, do never shun the light; Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers, Freely without disguise they love and hate, Still are they found in the fair face of day, And Heav'n and men are judges of their actions.
Page 206 - And thus, after all, the most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth."" True features make the beauty of a face and true proportions, the beauty of architecture as true measures, that of harmony and music. In poetry, which is all fable, truth still is the perfection.
Page 267 - Song, have thy day and take thy fill of light Before the night be fallen across thy way ; Sing while he may, man hath no long delight. THE YEAR OF THE ROSE FROM the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An hour-glass that holds not a sand ; From the maze that a flower-belt encloses To the stones and sea-grass on the strand How red was the reign of the roses Over the rose-crowned land...
Page 95 - DAY is past ! Stars have set their watch at last, Founts that through the deep woods flow Make sweet sounds, unheard till now, Flowers have shut with fading light — Good-night...
Page 70 - It is the mynd, that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore: For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store ; And other, that hath litle...
Page 291 - And I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth!
Page 158 - ... sorrow of all humanity." But I had no compassion for human misery, Whilst thou wert with me still. Then these, the river with its weeping, The piteous stars, the miserable men, All prayed the earth's dark depths to take thee from me, That so my woe might understand their woe ; And now — I weep. Yet weep I not for human misery, Nor for the stars' complaining, Nor for the river's wailing.
Page 223 - Have ye not seen sometime a pale face (Among a press) of him that hath been...