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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... dear ? " " No one , Aunt Mary . Only , if I were a man , I shouldn't rest until I became great . ' 99 Alas , that Aunt Mary , with all her will , should have such limited powers of expression ! She resumed her scrubbing of the silver ...
... dear ? " " No one , Aunt Mary . Only , if I were a man , I shouldn't rest until I became great . ' 99 Alas , that Aunt Mary , with all her will , should have such limited powers of expression ! She resumed her scrubbing of the silver ...
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... dear ? I take such pleasure out of my friends ' possessions as I can . " " But you want to go to the seashore , I know you do . I've heard you say so , " Honora protested . " I should like to see the open ocean before I die , ” ad ...
... dear ? I take such pleasure out of my friends ' possessions as I can . " " But you want to go to the seashore , I know you do . I've heard you say so , " Honora protested . " I should like to see the open ocean before I die , ” ad ...
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... dear , " — from Aunt Mary . - - The unconscious irony in that command of Aunt Mary's ! to go right to sleep ! Many times was a head lifted from a small pillow , straining after the meaning of the squeaky noises that came up from below ...
... dear , " — from Aunt Mary . - - The unconscious irony in that command of Aunt Mary's ! to go right to sleep ! Many times was a head lifted from a small pillow , straining after the meaning of the squeaky noises that came up from below ...
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... dear , " answered Mrs. Hanbury , absently , when the child repeated the question , " he was very handsome . " " Honora says he would have been President , " put in George . " Of course I don't believe it . She said they lived in a ...
... dear , " answered Mrs. Hanbury , absently , when the child repeated the question , " he was very handsome . " " Honora says he would have been President , " put in George . " Of course I don't believe it . She said they lived in a ...
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... dear ? " ― How could she explain to Aunt Mary that the sight of beautiful things gave her a sort of pain when she did not yet know it herself ? There was the massive stair- way , for instance , which they ascended , softly lighted by a ...
... dear ? " ― How could she explain to Aunt Mary that the sight of beautiful things gave her a sort of pain when she did not yet know it herself ? There was the massive stair- way , for instance , which they ascended , softly lighted by a ...
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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!