The Relentless CurrentG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - 324 էջ |
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... JACK . " The fire had burned low , only smouldering embers lay on the hearth . Muriel was still writing , though sometimes she paused for long minutes and re - read sentences that had run smoothly enough on first thought but did not ...
... JACK . " The fire had burned low , only smouldering embers lay on the hearth . Muriel was still writing , though sometimes she paused for long minutes and re - read sentences that had run smoothly enough on first thought but did not ...
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... Jack's window shade flapped uneasily , as the wind , that foreruns the storm , rose around the house , banging loose ... Jack tossed again more impatiently . Always absolutely temperate and clean of life himself , he could not understand ...
... Jack's window shade flapped uneasily , as the wind , that foreruns the storm , rose around the house , banging loose ... Jack tossed again more impatiently . Always absolutely temperate and clean of life himself , he could not understand ...
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... Jack at last dozed off into a troubled sleep from which he was suddenly aroused by a cry , so blood - curdling and awful , that he was on his feet and groping for the door even before he was fully awake . He stood in the corridor and ...
... Jack at last dozed off into a troubled sleep from which he was suddenly aroused by a cry , so blood - curdling and awful , that he was on his feet and groping for the door even before he was fully awake . He stood in the corridor and ...
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... nightmare would account for his horror - filled cry . Just as he was about to turn out the light again , the figure on the bed shuddered and a long - drawn breath rattled in his throat . Jack sprang to his side 24 The Relentless Current.
... nightmare would account for his horror - filled cry . Just as he was about to turn out the light again , the figure on the bed shuddered and a long - drawn breath rattled in his throat . Jack sprang to his side 24 The Relentless Current.
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Maud Ballington Booth. rattled in his throat . Jack sprang to his side and then saw for the first time that the face was ashy , the eyes glazed , and , O God , the horror of it ! a great pool of blood was spreading over the white sheet ...
Maud Ballington Booth. rattled in his throat . Jack sprang to his side and then saw for the first time that the face was ashy , the eyes glazed , and , O God , the horror of it ! a great pool of blood was spreading over the white sheet ...
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Էջ 49 - Wommn, .• wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 207 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me ! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark ! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Էջ 196 - Ask, and it shall be given unto you ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you...
Էջ 324 - THE END A Selection from the Catalogue of GP PUTNAM'S SONS Complete Catalogue sent on application A Commentary " None, we are sure, will finish this book without being stirred to some thought and sympathy of the life beyond their life.
Էջ 91 - Bar," rang out the sonorous words, "look upon the jury. Gentlemen of the jury, look upon the prisoner at the bar.
Էջ 137 - I did want to bring Mrs. Strange and you together, and so I chanced it. Of course, it's a sent-in dinner, as you must have inferred from the man at the door; I've given my servants a holiday, and had Claret's people do the whole thing. It's as broad as it's long, and as my husband says, you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb ; and it saves bother.