Agatha's Husband: A Novel, Հատոր 2Chapman and Hall, 1853 |
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... Miss Valery , and she do gi ' un their own way , terrible bad , " hinted the groom , with the peculiar Dorset fashion of ignoring accusative cases . • " Unfortunately , his own way happens to be a wrong one , " said Nathanael , quietly ...
... Miss Valery , and she do gi ' un their own way , terrible bad , " hinted the groom , with the peculiar Dorset fashion of ignoring accusative cases . • " Unfortunately , his own way happens to be a wrong one , " said Nathanael , quietly ...
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... Valery . But there was in her speech a certain re- tirence , as though all the common gossip of life was in her ... Miss Harper . When the tumult of this strange day had resolved itself into silence , Agatha , believing VOL . II . D her ...
... Valery . But there was in her speech a certain re- tirence , as though all the common gossip of life was in her ... Miss Harper . When the tumult of this strange day had resolved itself into silence , Agatha , believing VOL . II . D her ...
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... Miss Valery spoke , Nathanael listened in deep thought ; then meeting her eyes , he coloured slightly , but quickly recovering him- self , said , in a low tone , " Some time to - day , Anne , I would like to have a little talk with you ...
... Miss Valery spoke , Nathanael listened in deep thought ; then meeting her eyes , he coloured slightly , but quickly recovering him- self , said , in a low tone , " Some time to - day , Anne , I would like to have a little talk with you ...
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... Valery . " Tired ? no ! The salt breeze gives me strength - health . I hardly live when I am not in sight of the ... Miss Valery talked gaily the whole way , only occasionally sitting down to rest ; and , as though the 50 AGATHA'S HUSBAND .
... Valery . " Tired ? no ! The salt breeze gives me strength - health . I hardly live when I am not in sight of the ... Miss Valery talked gaily the whole way , only occasionally sitting down to rest ; and , as though the 50 AGATHA'S HUSBAND .
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... Miss Valery's ma- ture age and composed demeanour - that Na- thanael's wife instinctively turned her eyes away and kept silence . In a minute or two Anne had moved back to Mr. Harper's arm , and the three were walking on as before ...
... Miss Valery's ma- ture age and composed demeanour - that Na- thanael's wife instinctively turned her eyes away and kept silence . In a minute or two Anne had moved back to Mr. Harper's arm , and the three were walking on as before ...
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Էջ 105 - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
Էջ 105 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints.
Էջ 52 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Էջ 102 - So faithful that she can see all his little faults — though she takes care no one else shall see them — yet would as soon think of loving him the less for these, as of ceasing to look up to heaven because there are a few clouds in the sky. So true and so fond, that she needs neither to vex him with her constancy nor burden him with her love, since both are self-existent, and entirely independent of anything he gives or takes away. Thus she will marry neither from liking, esteem, nor gratitude...
Էջ 101 - ... the other, and thus my beaux jours will pass away, and my Ideal Lover will not then think me worth his while. Shall I never be at rest with him to love and understand me, to tell every thought and feeling, in far different scenes from these — under canvas before Rangoon — anywhere in Nature ? " I would have every woman marry ; not merely liking a man well enough to accept him for a husband, as some of our mothers teach us, and so cause many unhappy marriages, but loving him so holily that,...