Master Humphrey's Clock: The old curiosity shopChapman and Hall, 1840 - 426 էջ |
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... strange man came in and asked him how he did : adding , “ If I am half as much changed as you , sir , you have no recollection of me , I am sure . " - The strange man was not over and above well dressed , and was very far from being fat ...
... strange man came in and asked him how he did : adding , “ If I am half as much changed as you , sir , you have no recollection of me , I am sure . " - The strange man was not over and above well dressed , and was very far from being fat ...
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... strange light which had filled the hall , faded away . Joe Toddyhigh glanced involuntarily at the eastern window and saw the first pale gleam of morning . He turned his head again towards the other window in which the Giants had been ...
... strange light which had filled the hall , faded away . Joe Toddyhigh glanced involuntarily at the eastern window and saw the first pale gleam of morning . He turned his head again towards the other window in which the Giants had been ...
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... strange and terrible foreshadow- ing of what has happened since , must have hung over us then . I was afraid of her , she haunted me , her fixed and steady look comes back upon me now like the memory of a dark dream and makes my blood ...
... strange and terrible foreshadow- ing of what has happened since , must have hung over us then . I was afraid of her , she haunted me , her fixed and steady look comes back upon me now like the memory of a dark dream and makes my blood ...
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... strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams . The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place ; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils ...
... strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams . The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place ; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils ...
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... strange mystery upon the subject and offered no word of explanation . These reflections naturally recalled again more strongly than before his hag- gard face , his wandering manner , his restless anxious looks . His affection for the ...
... strange mystery upon the subject and offered no word of explanation . These reflections naturally recalled again more strongly than before his hag- gard face , his wandering manner , his restless anxious looks . His affection for the ...
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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...