The Living Age, Volume 213E. Littell & Company, 1897 |
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... Barenna ! And you will observe the strictest secrecy . " " Oh , yes , " answered carelessly ; " if you like ... Barenna - the Señorita Barenna . That is sufficient in Ronda . " Conyngham took up the letter and examined it . " It is of ...
... Barenna ! And you will observe the strictest secrecy . " " Oh , yes , " answered carelessly ; " if you like ... Barenna - the Señorita Barenna . That is sufficient in Ronda . " Conyngham took up the letter and examined it . " It is of ...
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... Barenna is my cousin . Her mother was my mother's sister . Do you know them , Señor Conyngham ? " " Oh , no , " answered Conyngham , truthfully enough . " I met a man who knows them . Do they live in Ronda ? " " No ; their house is on ...
... Barenna is my cousin . Her mother was my mother's sister . Do you know them , Señor Conyngham ? " " Oh , no , " answered Conyngham , truthfully enough . " I met a man who knows them . Do they live in Ronda ? " " No ; their house is on ...
Page 222
... Barenna , in the hope of meeting that lady's daugh- ter in the garden or grounds . Once outside the walls of the ... Barenna's house , but described a semicircle , mounting from terrace to terrace on his sure - footed horse . When at ...
... Barenna , in the hope of meeting that lady's daugh- ter in the garden or grounds . Once outside the walls of the ... Barenna's house , but described a semicircle , mounting from terrace to terrace on his sure - footed horse . When at ...
Page 223
... Barenna and her daughter . In the little bamboo grove he found the elderly lady lying back in her chair , which creaked ominously , and asking in a faint voice whether he was Don Carlos . " No , " answered Estella , with a mo- mentary ...
... Barenna and her daughter . In the little bamboo grove he found the elderly lady lying back in her chair , which creaked ominously , and asking in a faint voice whether he was Don Carlos . " No , " answered Estella , with a mo- mentary ...
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... Barenna was a woman who might well awaken a passionate love . Conyngham realized this , as from a distance , while Julia's mother spoke of some trivial matter of the moment to unheeding ears . That distance seemed now to exist between ...
... Barenna was a woman who might well awaken a passionate love . Conyngham realized this , as from a distance , while Julia's mother spoke of some trivial matter of the moment to unheeding ears . That distance seemed now to exist between ...
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Page 283 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
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Page 269 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
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Page 227 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 93 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.