The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded on FactJ. Bennett, 1831 - 716 էջ |
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... hope , prevailed over her appre- hension ; and Maria assented . " Are you certain , " said the fortune - teller , lowering her voice , " that we are alone ? Is no one within hearing ? " " None , " replied Maria . " Then show me your ...
... hope , prevailed over her appre- hension ; and Maria assented . " Are you certain , " said the fortune - teller , lowering her voice , " that we are alone ? Is no one within hearing ? " " None , " replied Maria . " Then show me your ...
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... hope he is dark - I like dark men ; -I hope he is not short : -but he is rich and a gentleman - that's good . After all , perhaps , he may not like me . " ( On this she goes to the glass , to adjust her curls . ) " Well ! I wish the ...
... hope he is dark - I like dark men ; -I hope he is not short : -but he is rich and a gentleman - that's good . After all , perhaps , he may not like me . " ( On this she goes to the glass , to adjust her curls . ) " Well ! I wish the ...
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... hope , and from hope to fear . Its very essence seems to be this perpetual mutability . When hope is swallowed up in enjoy- ment and confidence , love soon subsides into a tender voluptuous friendship . When hope is utterly cut off ...
... hope , and from hope to fear . Its very essence seems to be this perpetual mutability . When hope is swallowed up in enjoy- ment and confidence , love soon subsides into a tender voluptuous friendship . When hope is utterly cut off ...
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... hope ; and when he gained the neighbouring wood , being quite unable to controul his feelings , he burst into a flood of tears . Pride , however , soon came to his assistance : he saw too plainly that Maria not only did not love him ...
... hope ; and when he gained the neighbouring wood , being quite unable to controul his feelings , he burst into a flood of tears . Pride , however , soon came to his assistance : he saw too plainly that Maria not only did not love him ...
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... hope and anxiety , tripped off to her cousin's ; yet , when she took leave of her parents , she felt a return of her misgivings , and when her mother kissed her , and said , " God bless you , my child , and keep you from all harm ...
... hope and anxiety , tripped off to her cousin's ; yet , when she took leave of her parents , she felt a return of her misgivings , and when her mother kissed her , and said , " God bless you , my child , and keep you from all harm ...
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Էջ 355 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Էջ 484 - Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Էջ 1 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please: How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I...
Էջ 674 - April next, and that, at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, you be taken thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck till you are dead! dead! dead ! And may the Almighty God have mercy on your soul...
Էջ 180 - Tis raging noon ; and, vertical, the Sun Darts on the head direct his forceful rays. O'er heaven and earth, far as the ranging eye Can sweep, a dazzling deluge reigns; and all From pole to pole is undistinguished blaze.
Էջ 439 - Come unto me all ye who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Էջ 643 - EF, one mortal wound, of the depth of four inches, and of the breadth of half an inch ; of which said mortal wound he the said EF then and there instantly died.
Էջ 181 - Welcome, ye shades ! ye bowery thickets, hail ! Ye lofty pines ! ye venerable oaks ! Ye ashes wild, resounding o'er the steep ! Delicious is your shelter to the soul, As to the hunted hart the sallying spring...
Էջ 620 - ... a third liaison with the man who became her deliberate murderer. William Corder was the son of an opulent farmer at Polstead, and having become acquainted with the unfortunate girl Marten the consequence of an illicit intercourse which took place between them, was a child. From that time he became much attached to her, and was a frequent visitor at her father's house. The child died within a short period of its birth, and from the circumstances of its...
Էջ 205 - I received you ; Courted, and sought to raise you to your merits : My house, my table, nay, my fortune too, My very self was yours; you might have...