The Scarlet Shawl: A NovelTinsley Brothers, 1874 - 309 pagina's |
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Pagina 125
... instinct told her that his sympathies were with her . It was curious , but Percival never showed any jealousy of Sir Theodore , sharp as he usually was . Perhaps it was because Nora , although she sometimes thought of him , did so in a ...
... instinct told her that his sympathies were with her . It was curious , but Percival never showed any jealousy of Sir Theodore , sharp as he usually was . Perhaps it was because Nora , although she sometimes thought of him , did so in a ...
Pagina 140
... instinct that they had parted . Whether for good or When weeks went by , no was the question . and lengthened into months , it really looked as if his secret hopes were not ill - founded . Good as he was , he could not help feeling a ...
... instinct that they had parted . Whether for good or When weeks went by , no was the question . and lengthened into months , it really looked as if his secret hopes were not ill - founded . Good as he was , he could not help feeling a ...
Pagina 166
A Novel Richard Jefferies. and their reason above those subtle inner chords , those instincts of human nature to which all learning and all logic is but as a cobweb before the wind . The world knows very well what was the colour of ...
A Novel Richard Jefferies. and their reason above those subtle inner chords , those instincts of human nature to which all learning and all logic is but as a cobweb before the wind . The world knows very well what was the colour of ...
Pagina 205
... instincts of the soul . Only say to yourself , I am a man . I am not bound in a narrow circle like the animals . I have a hand , not a claw , or a hoof ; a thing with which I can grasp , and guide , and make ; a thing with which I can ...
... instincts of the soul . Only say to yourself , I am a man . I am not bound in a narrow circle like the animals . I have a hand , not a claw , or a hoof ; a thing with which I can grasp , and guide , and make ; a thing with which I can ...
Pagina 222
... instincts to which women are peculiarly susceptible . In her fast days she would have bet any odds on her success . She was very lively on the journey , much to the delight and astonishment of Rachel . Rachel had grown rather wearied of ...
... instincts to which women are peculiarly susceptible . In her fast days she would have bet any odds on her success . She was very lively on the journey , much to the delight and astonishment of Rachel . Rachel had grown rather wearied of ...
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admiration asked Astarte Aunt Milly Baal beach beauty began boat cheek church cival close hauled cloven hoof colour conceit creature dear deep notes delicate dress dull eagerly everything excited eyes face faint feeble feel fellow flat race foresail Gerard girl glance gone gunwale hand hated head heard heart Herbert Spencer hour idea instinct knew lady laugh least letter lingered lips listened looked mainsail marriage married Master George Milly's mind minutes nature never Nora's Old Wootton once Ostend passed passion Pauline Percival Percival's Prebendary Rachel recognised Regent Street remembered round rude sail scarlet shawl side silent Sir Theodore Stanley slowly smile snowdrop somehow soul strong sure table d'hôte talk Theodore's thing thought tion told took touch turned Tyrian purple utterly vanity wait walk wanted watch wished woman word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 167 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk...
Pagina 67 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Pagina 274 - Silently the tears gathered in her eyes, and rolled slowly down her cheeks. She did not check them — she did not think of them.
Pagina 255 - ... art — which perception in him was peculiarly acute, when his vanity made him exalt himself, and think of doing justice to himself, forced itself forward, and he grasped at it as the readiest and best means of showing his worth. He could no more have written down that stream of unconscious thought than he could have turned sensa.
Pagina 175 - When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Pagina 237 - ... over with their crust of civilization, cultivated into smiling gardens, and rich cornfields, and happy glorious vineyards — under it all there is a buried city, a city of the inner heart, lost and forgotten these many days. There, on the walls of the chambers of that city are pictures, fresh as they were painted by the alchemy of light in the long, long years gone by.
Pagina 105 - It is a singular fact in physiology that if a woman is neither very beautiful nor very attractive, nor in any way likely to get married herself, she is pretty sure to dote on her brother.
Pagina 215 - He might do what he liked and say what he liked, but he must he perfectly polite to Sir Theodore.
Pagina 167 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colours, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls.
Pagina 65 - World, which represented all things but as the body and organs of this supreme mind or animating centre. He began to have a faint faith in that antique cultus ; for here, in the most modern and most unsentimental mudbuilt capital of the nineteenth century, he recognised the existence of a Soul of the World.