LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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... girl , and I have been keeping it till you were seven , which was when it was given to me . Now which shall it be , a funny one or a pretty one ? " " Won't you choose for me ? " said Rudd , " or , " he added on a sudden and splendid ...
... girl , and I have been keeping it till you were seven , which was when it was given to me . Now which shall it be , a funny one or a pretty one ? " " Won't you choose for me ? " said Rudd , " or , " he added on a sudden and splendid ...
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... girl instead of a little boy , perhaps Sarah would have been more communicative , and hints that she too was a woman and liable to weakness might have leaked out , if not actual stories of emotional hopes and fears and triumphs . Rudd ...
... girl instead of a little boy , perhaps Sarah would have been more communicative , and hints that she too was a woman and liable to weakness might have leaked out , if not actual stories of emotional hopes and fears and triumphs . Rudd ...
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... girl's prettiness , or the rich colours of a fruiterer's window , or the still pearl - grey of the sea , or a man - of - war on the horizon , or an especially good horse . He seemed to see everything , and always to find something which ...
... girl's prettiness , or the rich colours of a fruiterer's window , or the still pearl - grey of the sea , or a man - of - war on the horizon , or an especially good horse . He seemed to see everything , and always to find something which ...
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... girl in fact . On the left was a screen . The room was heavy with the aromatic scent and thick with smoke . The old Chinaman wished them good evening in a cordial LAVIS 119 In which we see how one thing leads to another.
... girl in fact . On the left was a screen . The room was heavy with the aromatic scent and thick with smoke . The old Chinaman wished them good evening in a cordial LAVIS 119 In which we see how one thing leads to another.
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... made a little sighing sound . " Beautiful , " she said , and relapsed into ecstasy , while the girl , who was evidently new to it , watched her , fascinated . Rudd meanwhile sat down on the bed , but leapt 120 LANDMARKS.
... made a little sighing sound . " Beautiful , " she said , and relapsed into ecstasy , while the girl , who was evidently new to it , watched her , fascinated . Rudd meanwhile sat down on the bed , but leapt 120 LANDMARKS.
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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.