Master Humphrey's Clock: The old curiosity shopChapman and Hall, 1840 - 426 էջ |
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... better times . By degrees I began to make friends among these humble folks , and though they were yet shy of speaking , would give them " good day , " and so pass on . In a little time , those whom I had thus accosted , would make a ...
... better times . By degrees I began to make friends among these humble folks , and though they were yet shy of speaking , would give them " good day , " and so pass on . In a little time , those whom I had thus accosted , would make a ...
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... better approach that welcome task than by prefacing it with a production of his own pen , consigned to the safe keeping of my honest clock by his own hands ? The manuscript runs thus : INTRODUCTION TO THE GIANT CHRONICLES . ONCE upon a ...
... better approach that welcome task than by prefacing it with a production of his own pen , consigned to the safe keeping of my honest clock by his own hands ? The manuscript runs thus : INTRODUCTION TO THE GIANT CHRONICLES . ONCE upon a ...
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... better afford to recognise an old friend , even if he were poor and obscure . The more he thought of this , the more lonely and sad he felt . When the company dispersed and adjourned to the ball - room , he paced the hall and passages ...
... better afford to recognise an old friend , even if he were poor and obscure . The more he thought of this , the more lonely and sad he felt . When the company dispersed and adjourned to the ball - room , he paced the hall and passages ...
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... better to wait until the next . Well assured by this , that he was certainly about to begin directly , the listener collected his faculties by a great effort , and distinctly heard Magog express himself to the following effect : - In ...
... better to wait until the next . Well assured by this , that he was certainly about to begin directly , the listener collected his faculties by a great effort , and distinctly heard Magog express himself to the following effect : - In ...
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... better and a purer heart than she had to bestow . The old man's forgiveness ( she said ) she had no power to ask , but she prayed God to bless him — and so ended with a blot upon the paper where her tears had fallen . At first the old ...
... better and a purer heart than she had to bestow . The old man's forgiveness ( she said ) she had no power to ask , but she prayed God to bless him — and so ended with a blot upon the paper where her tears had fallen . At first the old ...
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Էջ 235 - Perhaps they'll think of me, and look this way.' He raised his head, and glanced from the fluttering signal to his idle bat, that lay with slate and book and other boyish property upon a table in the room. And then he laid him softly down once more, and asked if the little girl were there, for he could not see her.
Էջ 41 - I observed, roused by what I took to be his selfishness, " it always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity — two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them — and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
Էջ 38 - ... the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy church-yard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come...
Էջ 127 - My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea ; But, before I go, Tom Moore, Here's a double health to thee ! Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate ; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on ; Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may...
Էջ 85 - ... cunning ; his mouth and chin, bristly with the stubble of a coarse hard beard ; and his complexion was one of that kind which never looks clean or wholesome. But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to...
Էջ 39 - This was said with no appearance of cunning or deceit, but with an unsuspicious frankness that bore the impress of truth. She walked on as before, growing more familiar with me as we proceeded and talking cheerfully by the way, but she said no more about her home, beyond remarking that we were going quite a new road and asking if it were a short one. "While we were thus engaged, I revolved in my mind a hundred different explanations of the riddle and rejected them every one. I really felt ashamed...
Էջ 127 - MARY, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that e'er I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving...