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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... added to by degrees as she grew into young - ladyhood and surreptitiously became familiar with the writings of Ouida and the Duchess , and other litera- ture of an educating cosmopolitan nature . — - Honora's biography should ...
... added to by degrees as she grew into young - ladyhood and surreptitiously became familiar with the writings of Ouida and the Duchess , and other litera- ture of an educating cosmopolitan nature . — - Honora's biography should ...
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... added , " I haven't a pretty neck , so it's just as well . " A philosophy distinctly Aunt Mary's . Uncle Tom , after he had listened without comment that evening to her account of this conversation , was of the opinion that to take ...
... added , " I haven't a pretty neck , so it's just as well . " A philosophy distinctly Aunt Mary's . Uncle Tom , after he had listened without comment that evening to her account of this conversation , was of the opinion that to take ...
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... added after a little , " I suppose Mademoiselle made it . " " Does it make any difference who made it , Honora ? " " Oh , no indeed , Aunt Mary . May I wear it to Cousin Eleanor's to - day ? " " I gave it to you to wear , Honora . " Not ...
... added after a little , " I suppose Mademoiselle made it . " " Does it make any difference who made it , Honora ? " " Oh , no indeed , Aunt Mary . May I wear it to Cousin Eleanor's to - day ? " " I gave it to you to wear , Honora . " Not ...
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... added promptly . In the summer , that season of desolation for Honora , when George Hanbury and Algernon Cartwright and other young gentlemen were at the seashore learning to sail boats and to play tennis , Peter Erwin came to his own ...
... added promptly . In the summer , that season of desolation for Honora , when George Hanbury and Algernon Cartwright and other young gentlemen were at the seashore learning to sail boats and to play tennis , Peter Erwin came to his own ...
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... added power of vision , she saw him with new and critical eyes . She was surprised to discover that he was possessed of a quality with which she had never associated him youth . Not to put it too strongly - comparative youth . - " Peter ...
... added power of vision , she saw him with new and critical eyes . She was surprised to discover that he was possessed of a quality with which she had never associated him youth . Not to put it too strongly - comparative youth . - " Peter ...
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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!