The Relentless CurrentG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - 324 էջ |
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... sweet , sharp , frosty air filled the room . Then Muriel Dean very deliberately mended the fire and , pushing back her chair , opened the desk , collected pen , ink , and papers , and settled down in the same comfortable position to ...
... sweet , sharp , frosty air filled the room . Then Muriel Dean very deliberately mended the fire and , pushing back her chair , opened the desk , collected pen , ink , and papers , and settled down in the same comfortable position to ...
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... Sweet , if your lips will perhaps kiss these pages before you consign them to the safe - keeping of the flames of the big , friendly hearth in your dear , dear little den . Sometimes I wonder about these little things . Perhaps I am a ...
... Sweet , if your lips will perhaps kiss these pages before you consign them to the safe - keeping of the flames of the big , friendly hearth in your dear , dear little den . Sometimes I wonder about these little things . Perhaps I am a ...
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... Sweet , one thing I do know . When I can come and claim you , there will be love enough stored up in my heart to sweep you off your feet , and if you don't learn to give it back in kind it will not be my fault . If I don't fan the pure ...
... Sweet , one thing I do know . When I can come and claim you , there will be love enough stored up in my heart to sweep you off your feet , and if you don't learn to give it back in kind it will not be my fault . If I don't fan the pure ...
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... Sweet , you often sit with me there and I see the fire- light in your eyes and I know that the wilderness could hold no loneliness for me with your voice to fill it , your touch to soothe , your laughter to vie with that of the cataract ...
... Sweet , you often sit with me there and I see the fire- light in your eyes and I know that the wilderness could hold no loneliness for me with your voice to fill it , your touch to soothe , your laughter to vie with that of the cataract ...
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... sweet figure at my side . " These last months have not , alas , been spent in the west country I so love . I cannot always be inspecting mines or camping in the open . There is business , the sordid business of booming stocks ...
... sweet figure at my side . " These last months have not , alas , been spent in the west country I so love . I cannot always be inspecting mines or camping in the open . There is business , the sordid business of booming stocks ...
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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.