Felix Holt, the RadicalHarper, 1871 - 529 pages |
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... looked before him with the blank gaze of one who had driven his coach to the outermost edge of the universe , and saw his leaders plunging into the abyss . Still he would soon relapse from the high prophetic strain to the familiar one ...
... looked before him with the blank gaze of one who had driven his coach to the outermost edge of the universe , and saw his leaders plunging into the abyss . Still he would soon relapse from the high prophetic strain to the familiar one ...
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... looked at in a cage where flight is impossible . He was conscious of a troublesome intention , for which he had been rebuked before - that of disturbing all his speci mens with a view to a new arrangement . After an interval , in which ...
... looked at in a cage where flight is impossible . He was conscious of a troublesome intention , for which he had been rebuked before - that of disturbing all his speci mens with a view to a new arrangement . After an interval , in which ...
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... looked at him without recognition -not , however , without startled wonder ; for though the likeness to herself was no longer striking , the years had overlaid it with another likeness which would have arrest- ed her . Before she ...
... looked at him without recognition -not , however , without startled wonder ; for though the likeness to herself was no longer striking , the years had overlaid it with another likeness which would have arrest- ed her . Before she ...
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... looked at in that way ; every little detail is startlingly prominent , and the effect of the whole is lost . She saw the dried - up complexion , and the deep lines of bitter discontent about the mouth . " I am a hag ! " she said to ...
... looked at in that way ; every little detail is startlingly prominent , and the effect of the whole is lost . She saw the dried - up complexion , and the deep lines of bitter discontent about the mouth . " I am a hag ! " she said to ...
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... looked bitter , restless , and unenjoying , like her life . The news came from Jersey that Durfey , the imbecile son , was dead . Now Harold was heir to the estate ; now the wealth he had gained could release the land from its burdens ...
... looked bitter , restless , and unenjoying , like her life . The news came from Jersey that Durfey , the imbecile son , was dead . Now Harold was heir to the estate ; now the wealth he had gained could release the land from its burdens ...
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