The Heavenly TwinsCassell Publishing Company, 1893 - 679 pages |
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Page 71
... Edith's hair . " " I feel quite tempest tossed , " said Edith , getting up and going to a glass before which she removed her hat , and let down her hair , which was the colour of burnished brass , and fell to her knees in one straight ...
... Edith's hair . " " I feel quite tempest tossed , " said Edith , getting up and going to a glass before which she removed her hat , and let down her hair , which was the colour of burnished brass , and fell to her knees in one straight ...
Page 72
... Edith , roll- ing her hair up deftly and neatly as she spoke , with the air of a privileged person quite at home . Mrs. Orton Beg smiled at her affectionately ; but before she could speak the door opened once more , and the servant ...
... Edith , roll- ing her hair up deftly and neatly as she spoke , with the air of a privileged person quite at home . Mrs. Orton Beg smiled at her affectionately ; but before she could speak the door opened once more , and the servant ...
Page 151
... Edith . " Tell his lordship we are here , " Angelica said to the ser- vant authoritatively , before she performed her salutations . When these were over , the twins sat down opposite to Edith and inspected her . " We've just been seeing ...
... Edith . " Tell his lordship we are here , " Angelica said to the ser- vant authoritatively , before she performed her salutations . When these were over , the twins sat down opposite to Edith and inspected her . " We've just been seeing ...
Page 153
... Edith walked to the window , Mrs. Beale got out her hand- kerchief hastily ; the bishop's countenance relaxed . " I suppose you wouldn't like us to be converted ? " Angelica asked . " We call it perverted , dear child , " said Mrs ...
... Edith walked to the window , Mrs. Beale got out her hand- kerchief hastily ; the bishop's countenance relaxed . " I suppose you wouldn't like us to be converted ? " Angelica asked . " We call it perverted , dear child , " said Mrs ...
Page 154
... Edith Beale , who had been born in the palace and grown up there , under the protection of the great cathedral , as it were , and the influence of its wonderful chime , was never conscious of the inconvenience , and would not , at any ...
... Edith Beale , who had been born in the palace and grown up there , under the protection of the great cathedral , as it were , and the influence of its wonderful chime , was never conscious of the inconvenience , and would not , at any ...
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Page 126 - ... a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 46 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 360 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death ! where is thy sting ? The Universal Prayer FATHER of all!
Page 57 - And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain...
Page 241 - Hypocrisy and Custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, ' And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power but to weep barren tears : The powerful goodness want, — worse need for them : The wise want love : and those who love want wisdom : And all best things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men As if none felt : they know not what they do.
Page 526 - Of me you shall not win renown : You thought to break a country heart For pastime, ere you went to town. At me you smiled, but unbeguiled I saw the snare, and I retired : The daughter of a hundred Earls, You are not one to be desired.
Page 558 - My duty towards my neighbour is, to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me...
Page 256 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Page 372 - Agnus Dei , qui tollis peccata mundi , parce nobis , Domine. Agnus Dei , qui tollis peccata mundi , exaudi nos , Domine.
Page 256 - Withhold not correction from the child : for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.