Was it Murder, Or, The Relentless CurrentG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - 324 էջ |
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... thought back from the quiet English village to the wide world from which they had come . The little Swiss clock that ticked on the mantelpiece , the flight of carved swallows across the wall , the Madonna that smiled from the little ...
... thought back from the quiet English village to the wide world from which they had come . The little Swiss clock that ticked on the mantelpiece , the flight of carved swallows across the wall , the Madonna that smiled from the little ...
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... thought only of crumbs . Letters were not of moment in his world and tears could be counted only as dew- drops . No unwelcome questions could break the peace of meditation ; even the timid tap - tap of the little beak on the window ...
... thought only of crumbs . Letters were not of moment in his world and tears could be counted only as dew- drops . No unwelcome questions could break the peace of meditation ; even the timid tap - tap of the little beak on the window ...
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... 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 means of communication must prove at best . Still , as I promised ...
... 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 means of communication must prove at best . Still , as I promised ...
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... thought but did not seem to suit on reflection . At last her name was signed and the envelope sealed and locked away for future mailing . Then she gathered the sheets of her lover's letter and , throwing on another log , sat down to ...
... thought but did not seem to suit on reflection . At last her name was signed and the envelope sealed and locked away for future mailing . Then she gathered the sheets of her lover's letter and , throwing on another log , sat down to ...
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... moment to forget the present , in the weaving of dreams for the future . He had written a day or two since a letter to Muriel that was , to him at least , very momentous . He thought that by now it must be in her 20 The Relentless Current.
... moment to forget the present , in the weaving of dreams for the future . He had written a day or two since a letter to Muriel that was , to him at least , very momentous . He thought that by now it must be in her 20 The Relentless Current.
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Էջ 50 - 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 208 - 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 197 - Ask, and it shall be given unto you ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you...
Էջ 92 - Bar," rang out the sonorous words, "look upon the jury. Gentlemen of the jury, look upon the prisoner at the bar.
Էջ 138 - 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.