'Who breaks-pays', by the author of 'Cousin Stella'. |
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Who Breaks-Pays', by the Author of 'cousin Stella' Henrietta Camilla Jenkin No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 91 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, 1 found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 166 - ... lessons, because she wanted to pay back the opera ticket, knowing him to be so poor. He, on his side, studied her face, which was an honest witness to some struggle going on in her mind. Observing, however, that Miss Crumpton's attention was excited by the protracted silence, he said. — " Forgive what may have seemed a churlish reply to a question which only does me too much honour. I am ready to serve you to the utmost of my power.
Page 298 - Verneuil and Mons. Ix spoke of him as on a par with this lady, whose escutcheon had figured in the Crusades. His giving lessons had not been alluded to. How she wished Sir Mark and Edward Tufton had heard how respectfully he was mentioned ! they would not dare then to treat him with contempt. Mons. Ix did not seem to think there was anything out of the way in Giuliani's marrying Miss Ponsonby ; and she was the daughter of one baronet and the sister of another, quite of the same rank as Lill herself....
Page 228 - TUFTON had given ear to the words in Mr. Giuliani's letter, and she went to Lady Ponsonby's the next evening. Giuliani was standing behind a sofa in the farthest part of the room, opposite to the door, when she entered. Their eyes met for an instant, then glanced away from each other.