Jeannette Isabelle: A Novel, Հատոր 1John Richardson, 1837 |
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... Italy was daily and hourly expected ; and , as rooms had been engaged for him since the last week , some surprise began to be felt at his protracted absence . Unbounded , however , was the consternation of his guardian , who had under ...
... Italy was daily and hourly expected ; and , as rooms had been engaged for him since the last week , some surprise began to be felt at his protracted absence . Unbounded , however , was the consternation of his guardian , who had under ...
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... Italian beau , the Comte de Braglia , surely you don't find him so very disagreeable ? " " De Braglia is exactly like a little attorney's clerk , at Gray's Inn , all full of fleas and business : he is certainly the most honestly dirty ...
... Italian beau , the Comte de Braglia , surely you don't find him so very disagreeable ? " " De Braglia is exactly like a little attorney's clerk , at Gray's Inn , all full of fleas and business : he is certainly the most honestly dirty ...
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... Italy . He then requested to have a few minutes ' private interview with him after breakfast , and the conversation died away into that fixed and constrained tone of mere passing courtesy , which so strongly indicates the existence of ...
... Italy . He then requested to have a few minutes ' private interview with him after breakfast , and the conversation died away into that fixed and constrained tone of mere passing courtesy , which so strongly indicates the existence of ...
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... old father , who is since dead of the cholera ; one of the first victims on its appearance in Italy . He was the most indulgent old man on earth , and so fond of his daughter , that he would have gone on his knees 36 JEANNETTE ISABELLE .
... old father , who is since dead of the cholera ; one of the first victims on its appearance in Italy . He was the most indulgent old man on earth , and so fond of his daughter , that he would have gone on his knees 36 JEANNETTE ISABELLE .
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... Italy , by the young and handsome Lord Cly , a minor , with a fair Neapolitan baroness . Report says , that the family of a noble earl have a right to consider themselves much injured by the sudden- ness and capriciousness of his ...
... Italy , by the young and handsome Lord Cly , a minor , with a fair Neapolitan baroness . Report says , that the family of a noble earl have a right to consider themselves much injured by the sudden- ness and capriciousness of his ...
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Էջ 156 - It may have been so, sir. But I have a bad opinion of Black. I don't think he would stick at much." "It is just this, Geoff, as I believe: that Black's case is an illustration of the old saying, ' Give a dog a bad name, and hang him.
Էջ 236 - A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y.'—In short the learned pig Toby would have passed a much more creditable examination. Mrs- Blandford, almost in despair, at last brought out with an air of exultation her eldest child of all, a pretty little girl enough, who was to be examined in nothing less than the church catechism. She answered rightly the two first questions...
Էջ 205 - TO-DAY ia the scale-beam between to-morrow and yesterday ; it inclines to joy or sorrow, as our minds are swayed by the influences of the past or the future ; and it varies, on different sides, from elevation to depression, as our hopes or fears, our painful recollections or our soft regrets predominate. WE never injure our own characters so much, as when we attack those of others.
Էջ 83 - Of course, the fair side is always presented towards them, and all the darker traits and wilder extravagancies, are sedulously concealed on the reverse. This makes it so doubly dangerous for a girl to consult only her own preferences, and her own will, in making her choice for life; and this also proves the expediency, on all occasions, of taking the advice of some experienced male counsellor.