The Scarlet Shawl: A NovelTinsley Brothers, 1874 - 309 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... minds . A temper was , in the abstract , a bad thing ; but this girl had got a way of making you accept her blemishes as beauties . She was a most irregular creature . There was nothing about her with which fault could not be 1--2 THE ...
... minds . A temper was , in the abstract , a bad thing ; but this girl had got a way of making you accept her blemishes as beauties . She was a most irregular creature . There was nothing about her with which fault could not be 1--2 THE ...
Pagina 4
... eyes were a constant source of un- certainty to Nora . She admired every other part of herself devoutly , but about them she could never make up her mind without a torturing remnant of recurring doubt . She applied 4 THE SCARLET SHAWL .
... eyes were a constant source of un- certainty to Nora . She admired every other part of herself devoutly , but about them she could never make up her mind without a torturing remnant of recurring doubt . She applied 4 THE SCARLET SHAWL .
Pagina 5
... mind to say they were blue . But he did not dare declare them green . He wound out of the difficulty by talking round it . He looked at the said eyes very earnestly , and described them as charmingly changeable . One minute they were ...
... mind to say they were blue . But he did not dare declare them green . He wound out of the difficulty by talking round it . He looked at the said eyes very earnestly , and described them as charmingly changeable . One minute they were ...
Pagina 6
... you thought it belonged to a Venus ; but if your glance moved to the forehead , those extremely arched eyebrows put you irresistibly in mind of the portraits of Harry the Eighth . She was a jumble of styles 6 THE SCARLET SHAWL .
... you thought it belonged to a Venus ; but if your glance moved to the forehead , those extremely arched eyebrows put you irresistibly in mind of the portraits of Harry the Eighth . She was a jumble of styles 6 THE SCARLET SHAWL .
Pagina 10
... mind . But he was too much fascinated to ana- lyse her . She had much the same power over him that a snake has over a bird ; the poor thing cannot take its eyes from the splendid curling ornament in the grass , and holds its breath till ...
... mind . But he was too much fascinated to ana- lyse her . She had much the same power over him that a snake has over a bird ; the poor thing cannot take its eyes from the splendid curling ornament in the grass , and holds its breath till ...
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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.