James Gordon's Wife: A Novel ...D. Appleton & Company, 1871 - 174 pages |
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... manner of a person who feels her- self quite at home . The other , short , small , re- fined , was evidently a stranger . Her dress , a travelling - dress , was somewhat dusty , as though fresh from the railroad ; and the expression ...
... manner of a person who feels her- self quite at home . The other , short , small , re- fined , was evidently a stranger . Her dress , a travelling - dress , was somewhat dusty , as though fresh from the railroad ; and the expression ...
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... manner , emove the chain . " Surely James cannot have changed his mind , " thought Olivia , " and have followed me to - day ? " " Hush , Jane , don't hurry on so fast ; I shall sleep at the inn . How is Miss Gabrielle ? " " Oh , sir ...
... manner , emove the chain . " Surely James cannot have changed his mind , " thought Olivia , " and have followed me to - day ? " " Hush , Jane , don't hurry on so fast ; I shall sleep at the inn . How is Miss Gabrielle ? " " Oh , sir ...
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... manner , should devote himself to her - could any folly be greater ? With such feelings James Gordon went out in- to society ; looked calmly upon women renowned for their beauty , for their grace , for their powers of fascination ...
... manner , should devote himself to her - could any folly be greater ? With such feelings James Gordon went out in- to society ; looked calmly upon women renowned for their beauty , for their grace , for their powers of fascination ...
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... manners were universally agreeable ; and he could converse , with apparent interest , upon any subject , from politics to croquet . But how little we know of one another in this life , where we walk by sight ! When we estimate the ...
... manners were universally agreeable ; and he could converse , with apparent interest , upon any subject , from politics to croquet . But how little we know of one another in this life , where we walk by sight ! When we estimate the ...
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... manner , entered in his surplice , and the service began . The clergyman read in gusts , reminding Ga- brielle of the wind . His voice first rose to un- governed heights , then fell to unfathomable depths . His air , however , was ...
... manner , entered in his surplice , and the service began . The clergyman read in gusts , reminding Ga- brielle of the wind . His voice first rose to un- governed heights , then fell to unfathomable depths . His air , however , was ...
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ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER ALFRED TENNYSON answered asked Barber battledore and shuttlecock beautiful believe better brielle By-the-by calm Charlie Godfrey Charlie's child Cissy Cissy's cousin dear delight door drawing-room dream Edgecumbe ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Euphrosyne Eversfield exclaimed eyes face fancy Farnley fear feel felt Gabri Gabrielle rose Gabrielle's girl glad glanced gone half hand happy head hear heard heart HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hope hour Ianthe James James's knew Lady Louisa laughing look Lord Joseph Lorton Marian married Meddiscombe Miss Featherstone Miss Gordon Miss Wynn Morris Olivia once opened paused perhaps poor pretty Raynton replied returned rose Rotherbridge seemed sigh silent smile sorry soul spoke stood suppose sure sweet talk tell Thank thing thought tired told tone turned voice walked watch wife WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wish wonder young
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Page 133 - N., to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Page 28 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 25 - Nay! not so much as out of bed; When all the birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in, When as a thousand virgins on this day Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Page 92 - Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Page 67 - In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look ; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. Ah ! would 'twere so with many A gentle girl and boy! But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy? To know the change and feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steal it — Was never said in rhyme.
Page 105 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 73 - BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;— Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!
Page 92 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Page 133 - THE voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding-day, The primal marriage blessing, It hath not passed away. Still in the pure espousal Of Christian man and maid, The holy Three are with us, The threefold grace is said.
Page 6 - ... thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star.