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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... lived long enough to be taken back to Nice , and to con- sign his infant daughter and sundry other unsolved prob- lems to his brother Tom . - Brother Tom - or Uncle Tom , as we must call him with Honora - cheerfully accepted the charge ...
... lived long enough to be taken back to Nice , and to con- sign his infant daughter and sundry other unsolved prob- lems to his brother Tom . - Brother Tom - or Uncle Tom , as we must call him with Honora - cheerfully accepted the charge ...
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... lived with his grandmother , an im- poverished old lady with good blood in her veins who boarded in Graham's Row , on Olive Street . Suffice it to add , at this time , that he worshipped Mr. Leffingwell , and that he was back in a ...
... lived with his grandmother , an im- poverished old lady with good blood in her veins who boarded in Graham's Row , on Olive Street . Suffice it to add , at this time , that he worshipped Mr. Leffingwell , and that he was back in a ...
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... seersucker coat , bending tenderly over his beds ; he lived enveloped in a peace which has since struck wonder to Honora's soul . She lingered in her dressing , even in those days , falling into reveries 12 A MODERN CHRONICLE.
... seersucker coat , bending tenderly over his beds ; he lived enveloped in a peace which has since struck wonder to Honora's soul . She lingered in her dressing , even in those days , falling into reveries 12 A MODERN CHRONICLE.
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... lived in a beautiful house , and owned horses . Isn't that being rich ? " Poor Aunt Mary ! " Honora , " she answered , " there are some things you are too young to understand . But try to remember , my dear , that happiness doesn't ...
... lived in a beautiful house , and owned horses . Isn't that being rich ? " Poor Aunt Mary ! " Honora , " she answered , " there are some things you are too young to understand . But try to remember , my dear , that happiness doesn't ...
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... lived down . If George rode the huge rocking - horse , he was Paul Revere , or some equally historic figure , and sometimes , to Edith's terror , he was compelled to assume the rôle of Bluebeard , when Honora submitted to decapitation ...
... lived down . If George rode the huge rocking - horse , he was Paul Revere , or some equally historic figure , and sometimes , to Edith's terror , he was compelled to assume the rôle of Bluebeard , when Honora submitted to decapitation ...
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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!