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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... sense of humour unsus- pected by young persons of temperament . Strive as we will , we have only been able to see him in his rôle of Provi- dence , or of the piper . Has he no existence , no purpose in life outside of that perpetual ...
... sense of humour unsus- pected by young persons of temperament . Strive as we will , we have only been able to see him in his rôle of Provi- dence , or of the piper . Has he no existence , no purpose in life outside of that perpetual ...
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... sense Victorian , and which were the first stirrings of a national sense of the artistic . The old horse - cars with the clanging chains had disappeared , and you could take an electric to within a block of the imposing grille that ...
... sense Victorian , and which were the first stirrings of a national sense of the artistic . The old horse - cars with the clanging chains had disappeared , and you could take an electric to within a block of the imposing grille that ...
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... sense of closed shutters ; of a stifling south wind stirring their slats at noonday ; the vision of Aunt Mary , cool and placid in a cambric sacque , sewing by the window in the upper hall , and the sound of fruit venders crying in the ...
... sense of closed shutters ; of a stifling south wind stirring their slats at noonday ; the vision of Aunt Mary , cool and placid in a cambric sacque , sewing by the window in the upper hall , and the sound of fruit venders crying in the ...
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... sense of spectatorship seemed to fly , and she was part and parcel now of the great , moving things , with sure pinions with which to soar . Standing rapt upon the forward deck of the ferry , she saw herself , not an atom , but one ...
... sense of spectatorship seemed to fly , and she was part and parcel now of the great , moving things , with sure pinions with which to soar . Standing rapt upon the forward deck of the ferry , she saw herself , not an atom , but one ...
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... sense of wrong - doing , yielded to the temptation to adorn her ; and the saleswomen , who knew Mrs. Hanbury , made indiscreet remarks . Such a figure and such a face , and just enough of height ! Two new gowns were ordered , to be ...
... sense of wrong - doing , yielded to the temptation to adorn her ; and the saleswomen , who knew Mrs. Hanbury , made indiscreet remarks . Such a figure and such a face , and just enough of height ! Two new gowns were ordered , to be ...
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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!