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... Miss Marvon , her young friend and ' companion , ' was also watching the clock . ' Do you want your lunch , Mary ? ' inquired the lady of the house , with a very good imitation of a yawn . ' Not at all , thank you , Mrs. Beckett , ' was ...
... Miss Marvon , her young friend and ' companion , ' was also watching the clock . ' Do you want your lunch , Mary ? ' inquired the lady of the house , with a very good imitation of a yawn . ' Not at all , thank you , Mrs. Beckett , ' was ...
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... Miss Marvon also received him with a similar lack of enthusiasm . ' You are early to - day , ' she said , not indeed without a pleasant smile , but that belonged to her and could no more be dispensed with than the Austrian lip or the ...
... Miss Marvon also received him with a similar lack of enthusiasm . ' You are early to - day , ' she said , not indeed without a pleasant smile , but that belonged to her and could no more be dispensed with than the Austrian lip or the ...
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... Miss Marvon's beauty and accomplishments , and perhaps the consciousness that she was the friend and protégée of a millionaire without a relative , had already brought more than one eligible suitor to her feet ; but Mrs. Beckett knew ...
... Miss Marvon's beauty and accomplishments , and perhaps the consciousness that she was the friend and protégée of a millionaire without a relative , had already brought more than one eligible suitor to her feet ; but Mrs. Beckett knew ...
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... Miss Mary by no means shared his displeasure . Mrs. Beckett's wel- come to them was indeed tinged with irritation : So you are come at last , ' she said , but it was in a tone which implied that late was better than never , and the ...
... Miss Mary by no means shared his displeasure . Mrs. Beckett's wel- come to them was indeed tinged with irritation : So you are come at last , ' she said , but it was in a tone which implied that late was better than never , and the ...
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... Miss Mary ? ' inquired Uncle Ralph in significant tones . When I was a child I learnt it , ' she answered indifferently , but with an inner sense of expectancy nevertheless , that it cost her some pains to conceal . She did not ...
... Miss Mary ? ' inquired Uncle Ralph in significant tones . When I was a child I learnt it , ' she answered indifferently , but with an inner sense of expectancy nevertheless , that it cost her some pains to conceal . She did not ...
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Página 666 - ... lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Página 669 - For which the shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness loud in rustic lays, And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils.
Página 664 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With...
Página 69 - IN anything fit. to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought.
Página 588 - Moreover, his marvellous coolness and daring in hob-andnobbing with the hangman, under the unprecedented circumstances of the shepherd's party, won their admiration. So that it may be questioned if all those who ostensibly made themselves so busy in exploring woods and fields and lanes were quite so thorough when it came to the private examination of their own lofts and outhouses. Stories were afloat of a mysterious figure being occasionally seen in some old overgrown trackway or other, remote from...
Página 669 - My mood is changed, for it fell at a time of year When the face of night is fair on the dewy downs, And the shining daffodil dies, and the Charioteer And starry Gemini hang like glorious crowns Over Orion's grave low down in the west...
Página 584 - tis as much as my legs will do to take me that far. Going the same way ?' 'No, I am sorry to say! I have to get home over there' (he nodded indefinitely to the right), 'and I feel as you do, that it is quite enough for my legs to do before bedtime.
Página 307 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee.
Página 170 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 580 - My tools are but common ones, Simple shepherds all — My tools are no sight to see: A little hempen string, and a post whereon to swing, Are implements enough for me ! Shepherd Fennel glanced round. There was no longer any doubt that the stranger was answering his question rhythmically. The guests one and all started back with suppressed exclamations. The young woman engaged to the man of fifty fainted half-way, and would have proceeded, but finding him wanting in alacrity for catching her she sat...