LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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Էջ 217
... Miss Lasker , " but as a matter of fact we're not allowed to . Now just lay your right hand on the table for a moment , palm upwards . " She bent a comely head over it for a second and half whistled . " Most interesting , " she murmured ...
... Miss Lasker , " but as a matter of fact we're not allowed to . Now just lay your right hand on the table for a moment , palm upwards . " She bent a comely head over it for a second and half whistled . " Most interesting , " she murmured ...
Էջ 218
... Lasker . " Some time of course I should love to read them . " Later they played the game , and touched upon books : their favourite authors . What would lunch or dinner parties be without these useful fellows ? Miss Lasker confessed to ...
... Lasker . " Some time of course I should love to read them . " Later they played the game , and touched upon books : their favourite authors . What would lunch or dinner parties be without these useful fellows ? Miss Lasker confessed to ...
Էջ 219
... Miss Lasker , " on one con- dition . " " Well ? " " That you don't send it , but bring it . " " Very well , " said Rudd , and added that he would bring his hands with him too . He now had to talk to the bridesmaid on the other side ...
... Miss Lasker , " on one con- dition . " " Well ? " " That you don't send it , but bring it . " " Very well , " said Rudd , and added that he would bring his hands with him too . He now had to talk to the bridesmaid on the other side ...
Էջ 220
... Miss Lasker , it seemed , like Miss Dewsberry of horrid memory ( Rudd could not get her out of his mind at all at the moment ) , had a little room of her own and circle of her own friends . Upstairs was a mother who had been perfectly ...
... Miss Lasker , it seemed , like Miss Dewsberry of horrid memory ( Rudd could not get her out of his mind at all at the moment ) , had a little room of her own and circle of her own friends . Upstairs was a mother who had been perfectly ...
Էջ 221
... Miss Lasker , all eager- ness and impatience . Rudd fetched The Post - Meridian from the hall , where he had left it , and directed her attention to his morning's labours . She read them with flattering thoroughness . " Of course you ...
... Miss Lasker , all eager- ness and impatience . Rudd fetched The Post - Meridian from the hall , where he had left it , and directed her attention to his morning's labours . She read them with flattering thoroughness . " Of course you ...
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Էջ 213 - WILT thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony ? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer, I Will.
Էջ 214 - Wommn, .• 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 others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 124 - One of the most serious thoughts that life provokes is the reflection that we can never tell, at the time, whether a word, a look, a touch, an occurrence of any kind, is trivial or important.
Էջ 20 - Adam and Eve and Pinchme Went down to the river to "bathe. Adam and. Eve got drownded Who do you think was saved?
Էջ 177 - There is only one thing to do and that is to go on down the river.
Էջ 214 - Esther, to be my wedded wife, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, to love and to cherish, till death us do part ; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Էջ 45 - A starry night for a ramble, In the flowery dell, Through the bush and bramble, Kiss, but never tell!
Էջ 1 - Lucas calls his story a moving-picture novel, because in it he has fried to adapt to the novelist's use the methods of "the gifted gentlemen who apply the severe selective machinery of the cinema.