The Relentless CurrentG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - 324 էջ |
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... father had left home on parochial business soon after breakfast , and her sisters had driven to the near - by town to shop , so that she was the only member of the family in the house . Still , to make seclusion doubly sure , she had ...
... father had left home on parochial business soon after breakfast , and her sisters had driven to the near - by town to shop , so that she was the only member of the family in the house . Still , to make seclusion doubly sure , she had ...
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... father that which you have already promised , your dear hand in marriage , your sweet presence to make home for me in a far country . " I need not tell you with what a throbbing heart and beating pulse I write those words . I love you ...
... father that which you have already promised , your dear hand in marriage , your sweet presence to make home for me in a far country . " I need not tell you with what a throbbing heart and beating pulse I write those words . I love you ...
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... as a woman should when she takes this all- important step . If you do , I will come for you . Together we will win your dear old father to consent to our marriage , and in the little church where 38 The Relentless Current.
... as a woman should when she takes this all- important step . If you do , I will come for you . Together we will win your dear old father to consent to our marriage , and in the little church where 38 The Relentless Current.
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... father , a scholarly man of gentle life and kindly character , had never had ambitions for a more strenuous or active life than that presented by his country living . Many offers of preferment had been his , but the beautiful old home ...
... father , a scholarly man of gentle life and kindly character , had never had ambitions for a more strenuous or active life than that presented by his country living . Many offers of preferment had been his , but the beautiful old home ...
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... father , a famous soldier , had been killed in India , and his mother he had never known , as she had died at his birth . Muriel from her babyhood had been nicknamed Merry because of her sunny smile and rippling , irresistible laughter ...
... father , a famous soldier , had been killed in India , and his mother he had never known , as she had died at his birth . Muriel from her babyhood had been nicknamed Merry because of her sunny smile and rippling , irresistible laughter ...
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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.