A strange journey; or, Pictures from Egypt and the Soudan. By the author of 'Commonplace'.1882 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Pagina 112 - And the lonely years of people's lives slip by all the same as if they were happy. Two, who might have been one, but for some unspoken word or misunderstood gesture, wore out their solitary hours apart year after year, and had no beautiful history of mutual help and perfected destinies to carry away with them when the end came.
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Pagina 103 - Evelyn at some opened window ; might feel, at any rate, that he was as near to her as it was possible for him to be.