The Scarlet Shawl: A NovelTinsley Brothers, 1874 - 309 pagina's |
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Pagina 223
... lingered over it as long as possible . It was her policy to delay , to remain in town till the last minute . She had insisted on driving there from the station in a Hansom . Rachel demurred a little at first , but Nora was in one of her ...
... lingered over it as long as possible . It was her policy to delay , to remain in town till the last minute . She had insisted on driving there from the station in a Hansom . Rachel demurred a little at first , but Nora was in one of her ...
Pagina 225
... lingered over the sealskins and the other delicate furs . They were spread before her in rich pro- fusion . They showered the priceless spoils around her feet . Rachel was against the sealskin . It was so common , so rough and coarse ...
... lingered over the sealskins and the other delicate furs . They were spread before her in rich pro- fusion . They showered the priceless spoils around her feet . Rachel was against the sealskin . It was so common , so rough and coarse ...
Pagina 240
... . He could not trace the change in him . It was so slow and gradual . But he was not so eager now . He did not watch the hands of the clock till it was time to seek her side . He lingered in his 240 THE SCARLET SHAWL .
... . He could not trace the change in him . It was so slow and gradual . But he was not so eager now . He did not watch the hands of the clock till it was time to seek her side . He lingered in his 240 THE SCARLET SHAWL .
Pagina 243
... over him . There was a vacuity . Weary as he was of the glittering slavery of Pauline , at least it filled up the time . The habit lingered on him 16-2 THE SCARLET SHAWL . 243 studying to discover the reason why he was ...
... over him . There was a vacuity . Weary as he was of the glittering slavery of Pauline , at least it filled up the time . The habit lingered on him 16-2 THE SCARLET SHAWL . 243 studying to discover the reason why he was ...
Pagina 244
A Novel Richard Jefferies. filled up the time . The habit lingered on him . He even went , with a curious desire to analyse himself , to the street in which her house stood . Slowly he walked up and down the pavement , and pictured ...
A Novel Richard Jefferies. filled up the time . The habit lingered on him . He even went , with a curious desire to analyse himself , to the street in which her house stood . Slowly he walked up and down the pavement , and pictured ...
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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.