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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... women possessed such a taste , ” said Uncle Tom , with a quizzical look at his own exception . " To tell you the truth , I never classed it as a fault . " -- " Then I don't see why you married me , " said Aunt Mary a periodical remark ...
... women possessed such a taste , ” said Uncle Tom , with a quizzical look at his own exception . " To tell you the truth , I never classed it as a fault . " -- " Then I don't see why you married me , " said Aunt Mary a periodical remark ...
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... woman who was late to breakfast ? Bridget , who would have filled the kitchen with righteous wrath if Aunt Mary had transgressed the rules of the house , which were like the laws of the Medes and Per- sians ! And in Honora's early youth ...
... woman who was late to breakfast ? Bridget , who would have filled the kitchen with righteous wrath if Aunt Mary had transgressed the rules of the house , which were like the laws of the Medes and Per- sians ! And in Honora's early youth ...
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... Women " read by Cousin Eleanor . In autumn , and again in spring and early summer before the annual departure of the Hanbury family for the sea , the pleasant yard with its wide shade trees and its shrub- bery was a land of enchantment ...
... Women " read by Cousin Eleanor . In autumn , and again in spring and early summer before the annual departure of the Hanbury family for the sea , the pleasant yard with its wide shade trees and its shrub- bery was a land of enchantment ...
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... happily married , " unless I am mistaken , Honora will have a career . The child will be a raving beauty . And she has to perfection the art of managing men . " " As her father had the art of managing women 36 A MODERN CHRONICLE.
... happily married , " unless I am mistaken , Honora will have a career . The child will be a raving beauty . And she has to perfection the art of managing men . " " As her father had the art of managing women 36 A MODERN CHRONICLE.
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... women , " she said . " She sat in my room while I dressed the other afternoon . Mrs. Leffingwell had sent her with a note about that French governess . And , by the way , she speaks French as though she had lived in Paris . " Little Mrs ...
... women , " she said . " She sat in my room while I dressed the other afternoon . Mrs. Leffingwell had sent her with a note about that French governess . And , by the way , she speaks French as though she had lived in Paris . " Little Mrs ...
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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!