The Scarlet Shawl: A NovelTinsley Brothers, 1874 - 309 pagina's |
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Pagina 50
... night ; he had come down to the athletic sports and regatta , and had missed the last train by which he could get to Tunbridge Wells . As soon as he had got permission , like a true man , he turned to the more attractive company , and ...
... night ; he had come down to the athletic sports and regatta , and had missed the last train by which he could get to Tunbridge Wells . As soon as he had got permission , like a true man , he turned to the more attractive company , and ...
Pagina 76
... night , whose very stars seem to emit heat with their light . A slumber from labour and toil spreads over the land . The spade falls , the axe lies untouched , the pen drops from the fingers ; they leave them for the sound of falling ...
... night , whose very stars seem to emit heat with their light . A slumber from labour and toil spreads over the land . The spade falls , the axe lies untouched , the pen drops from the fingers ; they leave them for the sound of falling ...
Pagina 84
... They are the fashion : fall down and worship , or depart into outer darkness . Every now and then we are told with a sort of astonishment of the immense sums paid to prima donnas for a single night's singing . 84 THE SCARLET SHAWL .
... They are the fashion : fall down and worship , or depart into outer darkness . Every now and then we are told with a sort of astonishment of the immense sums paid to prima donnas for a single night's singing . 84 THE SCARLET SHAWL .
Pagina 85
A Novel Richard Jefferies. paid to prima donnas for a single night's singing . But what are these petty sums compared with the price hundreds upon hundreds of people in good society , the very uppermost cream , are ready to pay , ay ...
A Novel Richard Jefferies. paid to prima donnas for a single night's singing . But what are these petty sums compared with the price hundreds upon hundreds of people in good society , the very uppermost cream , are ready to pay , ay ...
Pagina 103
... night after night , weighing every word , and imprinting every sentence on her memory . It had just the opposite effect to what was intended . Her resentment at the charges it contained made her attribute every one of the ill qualities ...
... night after night , weighing every word , and imprinting every sentence on her memory . It had just the opposite effect to what was intended . Her resentment at the charges it contained made her attribute every one of the ill qualities ...
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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.