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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... reasons perhaps obvious -to correct the child's impression of an extraordinary paternity . Aunt Mary was a Puritan of Southern ancestry , and her father had been a Presbyterian minister . Uncle Tom was a member of the vestry of a church ...
... reasons perhaps obvious -to correct the child's impression of an extraordinary paternity . Aunt Mary was a Puritan of Southern ancestry , and her father had been a Presbyterian minister . Uncle Tom was a member of the vestry of a church ...
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... reason ! Soul - satisfying philosophy , to which Honora was to cling for many years of life . It is amazing how much can be wrung from a reluctant world by the mere belief in this kind of providence . Sleep came at last , in the darkest ...
... reason ! Soul - satisfying philosophy , to which Honora was to cling for many years of life . It is amazing how much can be wrung from a reluctant world by the mere belief in this kind of providence . Sleep came at last , in the darkest ...
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... reason to be pro- foundly thankful for it , " said Mrs. Dwyer . Virginia Hayden bit her lip . She remembered a saying of Mrs. Brice , " Blessed are the ugly , for they shall not be tempted . " " They say that poor Tom Leffingwell has ...
... reason to be pro- foundly thankful for it , " said Mrs. Dwyer . Virginia Hayden bit her lip . She remembered a saying of Mrs. Brice , " Blessed are the ugly , for they shall not be tempted . " " They say that poor Tom Leffingwell has ...
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... reason , she flushed . The conversation was chiefly carried on by kindly little Mrs. Joshua and by Mrs. Holt , who seemed at once to preside and to dominate . She praised Honora's gown , but left a lingering impression that she thought ...
... reason , she flushed . The conversation was chiefly carried on by kindly little Mrs. Joshua and by Mrs. Holt , who seemed at once to preside and to dominate . She praised Honora's gown , but left a lingering impression that she thought ...
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... reason to believe that the Vicomte has come to this country to — to mend his fortunes . I know nothing about his property . But my sense of responsibility towards you has led me to tell him that you have no dot , for you somehow manage ...
... reason to believe that the Vicomte has come to this country to — to mend his fortunes . I know nothing about his property . But my sense of responsibility towards you has led me to tell him that you have no dot , for you somehow manage ...
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afternoon answered arms asked Honora Aunt Mary Aunt Mary's blue carriage Chandos child Chiltern colour Cousin Eleanor cried Honora Cuthbert dear declared dinner door dress Dwyer exclaimed Honora eyes face Farwell father feel felt friends gazing girls glanced gone gown Grenoble Hanbury hand happy heard Holt Holt family Holt's horse Howard Spence Hugh husband Joshua Kame kissed knew lady laughed Leffing letter light Lily Dallam lion taming lived looked lunch Madame Mademoiselle marriage married morning never Newport night once paused perhaps Peter Erwin phaëton Quicksands remark replied Honora Rindge Rivington seemed Silverdale smiled staring stood strange suddenly sure surprise Susan Sutcliffe talk tell things thought to-day told took Trixton Brent Trixy turned Uncle Uncle Tom Vercingetorix Vicomte voice walked window Wing wish woman women wonderful York young
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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!