LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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Էջ 84
... dinner - table as a protest , Rudd had merely assumed that that was as it should be ; that it was all in the paternal part . Fathers have the right to kick up a row . It is possibly even their duty to lose their tem- pers just as it is ...
... dinner - table as a protest , Rudd had merely assumed that that was as it should be ; that it was all in the paternal part . Fathers have the right to kick up a row . It is possibly even their duty to lose their tem- pers just as it is ...
Էջ 85
... letter - writing as he did ; and read books of travel at night after dinner . He interested himself in local affairs to some extent , and was on various committees . Now and then he took the chair at LOST DIVINITY 85.
... letter - writing as he did ; and read books of travel at night after dinner . He interested himself in local affairs to some extent , and was on various committees . Now and then he took the chair at LOST DIVINITY 85.
Էջ 86
... dinner- party . With Rudd Mr. Sergison was patronizing and bland , with a tincture of irony . Rudd did not irritate him , as some boys do their fathers ; and his manner did not offend Rudd , who knew no other . As I say , their ...
... dinner- party . With Rudd Mr. Sergison was patronizing and bland , with a tincture of irony . Rudd did not irritate him , as some boys do their fathers ; and his manner did not offend Rudd , who knew no other . As I say , their ...
Էջ 90
... Dinner was to be at half - past six sharp , on account of the great meeting , and Rudd , for the first time in his life , saw a row of champagne bottles in his father's house . Not that Mr. Sergison was a teetotaller ; but hitherto ...
... Dinner was to be at half - past six sharp , on account of the great meeting , and Rudd , for the first time in his life , saw a row of champagne bottles in his father's house . Not that Mr. Sergison was a teetotaller ; but hitherto ...
Էջ 92
... dinner that evening was a kind of nightmare . In addition to Lord William Ruse , there were Sir Victor Uglow and Mr. Loney Imms , the famous Q.C. , M.P. Mrs. Sergison was the only lady , and no one paid her any but the most perfunctory ...
... dinner that evening was a kind of nightmare . In addition to Lord William Ruse , there were Sir Victor Uglow and Mr. Loney Imms , the famous Q.C. , M.P. Mrs. Sergison was the only lady , and no one paid her any but the most perfunctory ...
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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.