The Relentless CurrentG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - 324 էջ |
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... write her answer to those many closely- written pages . While she writes , we can , without disturbing her swiftly flying pen , read the words so closely and boldly written on those thin foreign sheets spread out before her ...
... write her answer to those many closely- written pages . While she writes , we can , without disturbing her swiftly flying pen , read the words so closely and boldly written on those thin foreign sheets spread out before her ...
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... writes you daily letters ; every scene and experience , every thought and feeling , seems to shape itself into messages for you , and it is hard that they cannot be caught and imprisoned in ink and paper , unsatisfactory though such ...
... writes you daily letters ; every scene and experience , every thought and feeling , seems to shape itself into messages for you , and it is hard that they cannot be caught and imprisoned in ink and paper , unsatisfactory though such ...
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... write it ? Not a very picturesque figure or scene , I must confess . I am in a garish western town , new and ugly . The hotel is the finished product of unhome- likeness . The view from my window consists of a vacant lot with piles of ...
... write it ? Not a very picturesque figure or scene , I must confess . I am in a garish western town , new and ugly . The hotel is the finished product of unhome- likeness . The view from my window consists of a vacant lot with piles of ...
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... write for it but I had the added mis- fortune to lose the pawn - ticket through a pocket which has a yawning hole in the bottom of it . See how I need a wife ! You can be sure , Merry dear , that until it is safe in my hands again I ...
... write for it but I had the added mis- fortune to lose the pawn - ticket through a pocket which has a yawning hole in the bottom of it . See how I need a wife ! You can be sure , Merry dear , that until it is safe in my hands again I ...
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... writing , though sometimes she paused for long minutes and re - read sentences that had run smoothly enough on first thought but did not seem to suit on reflection . At last her name was signed and the envelope sealed and locked away ...
... writing , though sometimes she paused for long minutes and re - read sentences that had run smoothly enough on first thought but did not seem to suit on reflection . At last her name was signed and the envelope sealed and locked away ...
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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.