Courtship and wedlock; or, Lovers and husbands, by the author of 'Cousin Geoffrey'. |
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... fear too splendid alliances , but though you might dread such lofty matches for your own lovely recluses , do not forget that Sir William Beauchamp , if he left his widow a smaller dower , and his daughters more slender portions than ...
... fear too splendid alliances , but though you might dread such lofty matches for your own lovely recluses , do not forget that Sir William Beauchamp , if he left his widow a smaller dower , and his daughters more slender portions than ...
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... fear I shall become a sad gad - about , and quite L'Etrangère chez elle . " Ever your devoted sister " BARBARA BEAUCHAMP . " A line to say when you will arrive . " CHAPTER VII . A MOTHER'S FONDNESS . THE retrospective glance COURTSHIP ...
... fear I shall become a sad gad - about , and quite L'Etrangère chez elle . " Ever your devoted sister " BARBARA BEAUCHAMP . " A line to say when you will arrive . " CHAPTER VII . A MOTHER'S FONDNESS . THE retrospective glance COURTSHIP ...
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... who alas , does not calmly trust that all will be well -but passionately fears lest ill should come , whose cheek grows white with fear if that of her darling pales for a moment , to whose ear 56 COURTSHIP AND WEDLOCK .
... who alas , does not calmly trust that all will be well -but passionately fears lest ill should come , whose cheek grows white with fear if that of her darling pales for a moment , to whose ear 56 COURTSHIP AND WEDLOCK .
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... fear , like most cunning and ambitious people , she has overreached herself . Their own fortunes cer- tainly are not settled on themselves , but , from her account , ( after she had gained her point with me , ) the Earl settled a ...
... fear , like most cunning and ambitious people , she has overreached herself . Their own fortunes cer- tainly are not settled on themselves , but , from her account , ( after she had gained her point with me , ) the Earl settled a ...
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... fear of his intruding himself . " " Well , certainly my love , the deeds you mention ought to be a better introduction than a few ceremonious words , from some silly trifler . The Count certainly is a most distingué looking man , and ...
... fear of his intruding himself . " " Well , certainly my love , the deeds you mention ought to be a better introduction than a few ceremonious words , from some silly trifler . The Count certainly is a most distingué looking man , and ...
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Página 59 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid ; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or confectionary plum ; The fragrant waters on my cheeks bestowed By thy own hand, till fresh they shone and glowed...
Página 211 - Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O, gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully : Or, if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo ; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light ; But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Página 212 - Do not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry...
Página 213 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Página 211 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Página 226 - Oh, Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh?
Página 62 - Which colour'd all his objects:— he had ceased To live within himself; she was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all: upon a tone, A touch of hers, his blood would ebb and flow, And his cheek change tempestuously— his heart Unknowing of its cause of agony.
Página 62 - Time taught him a deep answer — when she loved Another ; even now she loved another, And on the summit of that hill she stood Looking afar if yet her lover's steed Kept pace with her expectancy, and flew.
Página 146 - He stole her hand and she did not withdraw it ; he pressed it to his lips, and meekly her once proud head sank on his shoulder.