A Modern ChronicleMacmillan, 1910 - 493 էջ This, Mr. Churchill's first great presentation of the Eternal Feminine, is throughout a profound study of a fascinating young American woman. It is frankly a modern love story. |
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... Honora's age . A lady and gentleman followed . The lady was beginning to look matronly , and no second glance was ... Honora's future guardian gave her the relief in question . " Honora , this is your aunt . ' 99 Honora smiled from ...
... Honora's age . A lady and gentleman followed . The lady was beginning to look matronly , and no second glance was ... Honora's future guardian gave her the relief in question . " Honora , this is your aunt . ' 99 Honora smiled from ...
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... Honora . ” Another spasm of laughter from Bridget . " Listen to that now ! " she would cry to another ancient retainer , Mary Ann , the housemaid , whose kitchen chair was tilted up against the side of the woodshed . " It'll be Miss Honora ...
... Honora . ” Another spasm of laughter from Bridget . " Listen to that now ! " she would cry to another ancient retainer , Mary Ann , the housemaid , whose kitchen chair was tilted up against the side of the woodshed . " It'll be Miss Honora ...
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... Honora had like- wise seen : one end of a rose - covered villa which Ho- nora thought was a wing of his palace ; a coach and four he was driving , and which had chanced to belong to an Englishman , although the photograph gave no evi ...
... Honora had like- wise seen : one end of a rose - covered villa which Ho- nora thought was a wing of his palace ; a coach and four he was driving , and which had chanced to belong to an Englishman , although the photograph gave no evi ...
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... Honora learned to dread the summer , when one by one the families of her friends departed un- til the city itself seemed a remote and distant place from what it had been in the spring and winter . The great houses were closed and ...
... Honora learned to dread the summer , when one by one the families of her friends departed un- til the city itself seemed a remote and distant place from what it had been in the spring and winter . The great houses were closed and ...
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... Honora sighed . " What's the matter , Honora ? " asked Aunt Mary , without pausing in her vigorous rubbing . " The Leffing wells used to be great once upon a time , didn't they , Aunt Mary ? " " Your Uncle Tom , " answered Aunt Mary ...
... Honora sighed . " What's the matter , Honora ? " asked Aunt Mary , without pausing in her vigorous rubbing . " The Leffing wells used to be great once upon a time , didn't they , Aunt Mary ? " " Your Uncle Tom , " answered Aunt Mary ...
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Էջ 155 - 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 other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 58 - I made, thirty years back. My only excuse for giving them is that they are so singularly prophetic. The reminding tune (an old French chime which my father used to sing) is very simple and touching; and the old French words run thus: "Orleans, Beaugency! Notre Dame de Cleryl Vendome! Vendome! Quel chagrin, quel ennui De compter toute la nuit Les heures — Les heures!