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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... appearance and manners of any duke who lingered beside classic seas . Honora has often pictured to herself a gay villa set high above the curving shore , the amethyst depths shad- ing into emerald , laced with milk - white foam , the ...
... appearance and manners of any duke who lingered beside classic seas . Honora has often pictured to herself a gay villa set high above the curving shore , the amethyst depths shad- ing into emerald , laced with milk - white foam , the ...
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... appearance of discomfort in his frock - coat . He had scant , sandy - grey whiskers , a tightly closed and smooth - shaven upper lip , a nose with a decided ridge , and rather small but penetrating eyes in which the blue pigment had ...
... appearance of discomfort in his frock - coat . He had scant , sandy - grey whiskers , a tightly closed and smooth - shaven upper lip , a nose with a decided ridge , and rather small but penetrating eyes in which the blue pigment had ...
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... appearance . In the rich Mrs. Holt , the friend of the Randolph Leffing- wells , Aunt Mary was prepared to find a more vapidly fashionable personage , and had schooled herself forthwith . " You are Mrs. Thomas Leffingwell ? " she asked ...
... appearance . In the rich Mrs. Holt , the friend of the Randolph Leffing- wells , Aunt Mary was prepared to find a more vapidly fashionable personage , and had schooled herself forthwith . " You are Mrs. Thomas Leffingwell ? " she asked ...
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... appearance of old Catherine , her nurse , on the side porch , reminding her that it was time to wash for supper . No princess could have had a more humble tiring - woman than Catherine . Honora cannot be unduly blamed . When she reached ...
... appearance of old Catherine , her nurse , on the side porch , reminding her that it was time to wash for supper . No princess could have had a more humble tiring - woman than Catherine . Honora cannot be unduly blamed . When she reached ...
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... appeared , an hour or so later , Honora was surveying her magnificence in the glass . " Oh , Aunt Mary ! " she cried , with her arms tightly locked around her aunt's neck , " how lovely ! Did you send all the way to New York for it ...
... appeared , an hour or so later , Honora was surveying her magnificence in the glass . " Oh , Aunt Mary ! " she cried , with her arms tightly locked around her aunt's neck , " how lovely ! Did you send all the way to New York for it ...
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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!