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... asking Theodore to play with her at a variety of games , or to tell her fortune , took up the cards , and , talking all the time without receiving or caring for . reply , amused herself with the solitary game of Patience . At first ...
... asking Theodore to play with her at a variety of games , or to tell her fortune , took up the cards , and , talking all the time without receiving or caring for . reply , amused herself with the solitary game of Patience . At first ...
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... asked Anastasia , turning her radiant face towards them . " I see Madame la Marquise has comfortably tucked herself for the evening ; " and in truth the weary Frenchwoman had laid aside her cards , and up rolled herself in her shawl at ...
... asked Anastasia , turning her radiant face towards them . " I see Madame la Marquise has comfortably tucked herself for the evening ; " and in truth the weary Frenchwoman had laid aside her cards , and up rolled herself in her shawl at ...
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... asked Anastasia , striking a few beautiful chords . " O ! for heaven's sake , " interrupted Ellesif , " dearest Anastasia , do not recall that hateful business . I shall never think of it without shame , mortification - " Theodore's ...
... asked Anastasia , striking a few beautiful chords . " O ! for heaven's sake , " interrupted Ellesif , " dearest Anastasia , do not recall that hateful business . I shall never think of it without shame , mortification - " Theodore's ...
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... asked him some trivial question in a manner that shewed she took an interest in his pen- sive looks . He answered her question by something more than a reply ; an amusing remark of € 2 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY . 27 apartment, half the ...
... asked him some trivial question in a manner that shewed she took an interest in his pen- sive looks . He answered her question by something more than a reply ; an amusing remark of € 2 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY . 27 apartment, half the ...
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... asked Theodore , " that Countess Anastasia would exchange her exquisite beauty for an humbler ap- pearance , if that only could be coupled with the quality which was to engage one fa- voured individual ? " . " Can you doubt it , Señor ...
... asked Theodore , " that Countess Anastasia would exchange her exquisite beauty for an humbler ap- pearance , if that only could be coupled with the quality which was to engage one fa- voured individual ? " . " Can you doubt it , Señor ...
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Page 138 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair : Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the Sun goes round.
Page 59 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.