LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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... hear his crutch clattering behind you as you ran . Oran was an incipient magnate : he took small boys ' property from them - their tops , marbles , pencils- and never returned it ; he teased them about their clothes ; he twisted their ...
... hear his crutch clattering behind you as you ran . Oran was an incipient magnate : he took small boys ' property from them - their tops , marbles , pencils- and never returned it ; he teased them about their clothes ; he twisted their ...
Էջ 14
... hear who it was . In the course of a minute or so Jane tripped along the passage and opened the door . " Is Mrs. Sergison at home ? " Rudd heard a voice inquire . " I'm sorry but she's not , " Jane replied . Nothing kept Rudd from ...
... hear who it was . In the course of a minute or so Jane tripped along the passage and opened the door . " Is Mrs. Sergison at home ? " Rudd heard a voice inquire . " I'm sorry but she's not , " Jane replied . Nothing kept Rudd from ...
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... hear you ask . Surely the life of no boy is worth writing to whom a nigger and a one - legged Spanish pirouetting gentleman had the dignity of landmarks ? Quite so . And the land- mark follows : these were merely an ingredient of it ...
... hear you ask . Surely the life of no boy is worth writing to whom a nigger and a one - legged Spanish pirouetting gentleman had the dignity of landmarks ? Quite so . And the land- mark follows : these were merely an ingredient of it ...
Էջ 49
... man to lift the boy to the stature and condition of a man - and sporting man at that was another . But you shall hear . It was when Rudd was ten that a match between the Gentlemen and the Players was played at Caston for THE WAGER 49.
... man to lift the boy to the stature and condition of a man - and sporting man at that was another . But you shall hear . It was when Rudd was ten that a match between the Gentlemen and the Players was played at Caston for THE WAGER 49.
Էջ 70
... hear that he had died in the night . The blinds were pulled down ; breakfast was eaten by gaslight and almost in silence ; there were no games that day . Now and then a boy would forget , and would shout or laugh , and then suddenly he ...
... hear that he had died in the night . The blinds were pulled down ; breakfast was eaten by gaslight and almost in silence ; there were no games that day . Now and then a boy would forget , and would shout or laugh , and then suddenly he ...
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Alfred Shaw Appleby asked Rudd Avon beautiful began Bendy Bloor called Caston CHAPTER Charles Lamb Chislehurst clothes course croquet dear Canon Dimsdale dinner door Doran dressed E. V. LUCAS everything eyes face father friends Gard gardener Gentlemen Germaine girl guests hand happy Helen Hoadley Hornby interesting Jane Jumbo Keast kind laughed Lavis letter live London looked Luard lunch Madame Tussaud's maître d'hôtel mind Miss Brooke Miss Dewsberry Miss Lasker Montmartre morning mother never night paper Paris play Pollitt poor Post-Meridian pretty Primrose League replied returned Rudd asked Rudd felt Rudd found Rudd knew Rudd thought Rudd took Rudd wondered Rudd's Sarah seemed Sergison smiled sorry stoat sure talk tell There's thing thought Rudd told Uncle Ben Voaden Vosper wait waiter walked wish woman write young
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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.