Agatha's Husband: A Novel, Հատոր 2Chapman and Hall, 1853 |
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... better man in all Dorsetshire . " It was evident that Nathanael greatly liked " Duke Dugdale . ” Agatha would have asked a score of ques- tions about his age , which defied all guess- ing , and might have been anything from thirty to ...
... better man in all Dorsetshire . " It was evident that Nathanael greatly liked " Duke Dugdale . ” Agatha would have asked a score of ques- tions about his age , which defied all guess- ing , and might have been anything from thirty to ...
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... better , I must certainly take Agatha up Holm Hill , and show her the view of the Channel . " Agatha drew back from the window . " Ah , not the sea ! -I cannot bear the sea . " Anne Valery watched her with peculiar earnestness . " Were ...
... better , I must certainly take Agatha up Holm Hill , and show her the view of the Channel . " Agatha drew back from the window . " Ah , not the sea ! -I cannot bear the sea . " Anne Valery watched her with peculiar earnestness . " Were ...
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... better than she can- will not my wife trust me ? " And Anne Valery's glance seemed to echo , " Trust him . " Agatha , tried to the utmost of her small stock of patience , grew more bitter than she could have believed it possible to be ...
... better than she can- will not my wife trust me ? " And Anne Valery's glance seemed to echo , " Trust him . " Agatha , tried to the utmost of her small stock of patience , grew more bitter than she could have believed it possible to be ...
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... better than another , it is in the management of her children . " " Bah ! they manage themselves ; I just . leave them to nature , " cried Mrs. Dugdale ; but her eye - the mother's eye - twinkled with 78 AGATHA'S HUSBAND .
... better than another , it is in the management of her children . " " Bah ! they manage themselves ; I just . leave them to nature , " cried Mrs. Dugdale ; but her eye - the mother's eye - twinkled with 78 AGATHA'S HUSBAND .
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... for drink . Poor fellows ! if they only knew better ! But I'll tell'ee what it is , Nathanael , " and he used the slight Dorset accent , which always VOL . II . G broadened when he was very earnest , " those lads AGATHA'S HUSBAND . 81 .
... for drink . Poor fellows ! if they only knew better ! But I'll tell'ee what it is , Nathanael , " and he used the slight Dorset accent , which always VOL . II . G broadened when he was very earnest , " those lads AGATHA'S HUSBAND . 81 .
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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,...