The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded on FactJ. Bennett, 1831 - 716 էջ |
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... mother sometimes evinced a little impatience on this score , and would say to her husband , " I wish , Jack , that Harry Everton would ask our Maria in marriage ; why don't you speak to him about it ? " But her husband , who had good ...
... mother sometimes evinced a little impatience on this score , and would say to her husband , " I wish , Jack , that Harry Everton would ask our Maria in marriage ; why don't you speak to him about it ? " But her husband , who had good ...
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... mother is gone to Polstead , and has taken her keys , or I should have given you some cold meat . " " Heaven bless you " replied the woman , " I desire nothing better than this . " Having refreshed herself , she continued ; - " Pray ...
... mother is gone to Polstead , and has taken her keys , or I should have given you some cold meat . " " Heaven bless you " replied the woman , " I desire nothing better than this . " Having refreshed herself , she continued ; - " Pray ...
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... mother was not calculated to allay her anxious feelings . This was the first time in her life that she felt that she had any secret to keep from them : her nature was frank and open - she never had a thought 18 THE RED BARN .
... mother was not calculated to allay her anxious feelings . This was the first time in her life that she felt that she had any secret to keep from them : her nature was frank and open - she never had a thought 18 THE RED BARN .
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... mother followed , and pressed her to return ; but she pretended illness , and went to bed . The youth soon took his leave , in a state o the greatest dejection . As he went home he was puzzling himself to think what could be the reason ...
... mother followed , and pressed her to return ; but she pretended illness , and went to bed . The youth soon took his leave , in a state o the greatest dejection . As he went home he was puzzling himself to think what could be the reason ...
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... mother , she knew , had no desire to go to such places . After much reflec- tion she formed her plan . There was a rela- tive of her father's , a widow , who resided in Polstead : this woman had an only daughter , some years older than ...
... mother , she knew , had no desire to go to such places . After much reflec- tion she formed her plan . There was a rela- tive of her father's , a widow , who resided in Polstead : this woman had an only daughter , some years older than ...
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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...