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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... looked like a little Quakeress . Her silvered hair was parted in the middle and had , in spite of palpable efforts towards tightness and repression , a perceptible ripple in it . Grey was her only concession to colour , and her gowns ...
... looked like a little Quakeress . Her silvered hair was parted in the middle and had , in spite of palpable efforts towards tightness and repression , a perceptible ripple in it . Grey was her only concession to colour , and her gowns ...
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... looked at Honora , whose head was thrown back . " What kind of ambition do you mean , Honora ? " " Oh , " cried Honora , " to be great and rich and power- ful , and to be somebody . " 66 Who has been putting such things in your head ...
... looked at Honora , whose head was thrown back . " What kind of ambition do you mean , Honora ? " " Oh , " cried Honora , " to be great and rich and power- ful , and to be somebody . " 66 Who has been putting such things in your head ...
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... looked up at him trustfully with wagging tails . Yet his goodness , as Emerson would have said , had some edge to it . Honora had seen the light of anger in his blue eye - a divine ray . Once he had chastised her for telling Aunt Mary a ...
... looked up at him trustfully with wagging tails . Yet his goodness , as Emerson would have said , had some edge to it . Honora had seen the light of anger in his blue eye - a divine ray . Once he had chastised her for telling Aunt Mary a ...
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... looked with suspicion upon this imaginative gift of Honora's , and had several serious con- versations with Aunt Mary on the subject . It was true , in a measure , that Honora quickened to life everything she touched , and her arrival ...
... looked with suspicion upon this imaginative gift of Honora's , and had several serious con- versations with Aunt Mary on the subject . It was true , in a measure , that Honora quickened to life everything she touched , and her arrival ...
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... looked as she came for- ward to greet them and kissed Honora ! She had been Virginia Grey , and scarce had had a gown to her back when she had married the elderly Duncan Hayden , who had built her this house and presented her with a ...
... looked as she came for- ward to greet them and kissed Honora ! She had been Virginia Grey , and scarce had had a gown to her back when she had married the elderly Duncan Hayden , who had built her this house and presented her with 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!