Agatha's Husband: A Novel, Հատոր 2Chapman and Hall, 1853 |
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... , but thoroughly cordial shake . " And really , now I think of it , I was coming to meet you . The Missus told me to do it . " " How is the Missus ? ' " asked Mr. Harper . แ Quite well - they're all waiting for you . 4 AGATHA'S HUSBAND .
... , but thoroughly cordial shake . " And really , now I think of it , I was coming to meet you . The Missus told me to do it . " " How is the Missus ? ' " asked Mr. Harper . แ Quite well - they're all waiting for you . 4 AGATHA'S HUSBAND .
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... told her , and how she knew scarcely more of his family than their names . Having parted from his brother - in - law , and gradually lost the benign influence which Duke Dugdale seemed to impart , Mr. Harper's face re - assumed that ...
... told her , and how she knew scarcely more of his family than their names . Having parted from his brother - in - law , and gradually lost the benign influence which Duke Dugdale seemed to impart , Mr. Harper's face re - assumed that ...
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... told her that he was not the sort of man into whose fatherly arms she could throw herself , and indulge the emotion brimming over in her heart . But his examination of her was evi- dently favourable . " You are most welcome , believe me ...
... told her that he was not the sort of man into whose fatherly arms she could throw herself , and indulge the emotion brimming over in her heart . But his examination of her was evi- dently favourable . " You are most welcome , believe me ...
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... told this before ? " " Because I never thought of it myself until this morning . " The exceeding gentleness of his tone sur- prised her , and restrained many more words , not over - sweet , which were issuing from her angry lips . " The ...
... told this before ? " " Because I never thought of it myself until this morning . " The exceeding gentleness of his tone sur- prised her , and restrained many more words , not over - sweet , which were issuing from her angry lips . " The ...
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... told you of ? " Mr. Harper preferred the latter course , under fear , his wife merrily declared , of being circumvented by Mrs. Dugdale . The brother and sister , she had already discovered , seemed on as pleasant terms as fire and ...
... told you of ? " Mr. Harper preferred the latter course , under fear , his wife merrily declared , of being circumvented by Mrs. Dugdale . The brother and sister , she had already discovered , seemed on as pleasant terms as fire and ...
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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,...