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... Meta , looking , it must be confessed , rather black about the hands and pinafore , as if Margery had not had time to attend to her within the last hour , came running in . George shut up his knife and held out his arms . 66 Papa , are ...
... Meta , looking , it must be confessed , rather black about the hands and pinafore , as if Margery had not had time to attend to her within the last hour , came running in . George shut up his knife and held out his arms . 66 Papa , are ...
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... Meta had been permitted to paint red , and the cottage blue . Not an article of Margery's but she could remove ; all was sacred to her : but in her fidelity she did resent bitterly the having to leave the property of her master and ...
... Meta had been permitted to paint red , and the cottage blue . Not an article of Margery's but she could remove ; all was sacred to her : but in her fidelity she did resent bitterly the having to leave the property of her master and ...
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... Meta and sobbed out her pas- sionate prayer to God in her dire distress , not to be taken from them . Things had changed : the world in which she had been so happy had lost its charm for her ; the idol in whose arms she had sheltered ...
... Meta and sobbed out her pas- sionate prayer to God in her dire distress , not to be taken from them . Things had changed : the world in which she had been so happy had lost its charm for her ; the idol in whose arms she had sheltered ...
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... Meta , the bright room , the well - laden tea - table greeted their surprised eyes , and Charlotte was advancing with open hands . " I thought you'd like to see somebody here to get things comfort- able for you , and I knew that cross ...
... Meta , the bright room , the well - laden tea - table greeted their surprised eyes , and Charlotte was advancing with open hands . " I thought you'd like to see somebody here to get things comfort- able for you , and I knew that cross ...
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... Meta to bursting to - night with the pine - apple jelly and the boned fowl , and the other things with unpronounceable names , which Margery regarded as rank poison when regaling Miss Meta , she should not interfere . The sin might lie ...
... Meta to bursting to - night with the pine - apple jelly and the boned fowl , and the other things with unpronounceable names , which Margery regarded as rank poison when regaling Miss Meta , she should not interfere . The sin might lie ...
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Page 42 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 40 - And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even ! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Page 414 - Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ; Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 232 - Fairer seems the ancient city, and the sunshine seems more fair, That he once has trod its pavement, that he once has breathed its air!
Page 476 - La pièce du jeune poète de quinze ans se terminait par ces vers : Moi, qui toujours fuyant les cités et les cours, De trois, lustres à peine ai vu finir le cours.
Page 252 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun. And by-and-by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 246 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest I will go; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God.
Page 166 - ... and if ever he meditate on power, go toss up thy baby to his brow, and bring back his thoughts into his heart by the music of thy discourse. Teach him to live unto God and unto thee ; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
Page 45 - He stated that there was a great deal to be Said on both sides...
Page 420 - A heroic Wallace, quartered on the scaffold, cannot hinder that his Scotland become, one day, a part of England ; but he does hinder that it become, on tyrannous, unfair terms, a part of it...