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... expected at Transome Court . As early as two o'clock in the afternoon the aged lodge - keeper had opened the heavy gate , green as the tree trunks were green with nature's powdery paint , deposited year after year . Already in the ...
... expected at Transome Court . As early as two o'clock in the afternoon the aged lodge - keeper had opened the heavy gate , green as the tree trunks were green with nature's powdery paint , deposited year after year . Already in the ...
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... expected . But on the west side , where the carriage entrance was , the gates under the stone archway were thrown open ; and so was the double door of the entrance - hall , letting in the warm light on the scagliola pillars , the marble ...
... expected . But on the west side , where the carriage entrance was , the gates under the stone archway were thrown open ; and so was the double door of the entrance - hall , letting in the warm light on the scagliola pillars , the marble ...
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... expected only her son , she would have trembled less ; she expected a little grandson also ; and there were reasons why she had not been enraptured when her son had written to her only when he was on the eve of returning that he already ...
... expected only her son , she would have trembled less ; she expected a little grandson also ; and there were reasons why she had not been enraptured when her son had written to her only when he was on the eve of returning that he already ...
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... expected to be liberal in that wider sense which commands majorities . " " I wish this man were not so much of a talker , " thought Harold ; " he'll bore me . We shall see , " he said , aloud , " what can be done in the way of ...
... expected to be liberal in that wider sense which commands majorities . " " I wish this man were not so much of a talker , " thought Harold ; " he'll bore me . We shall see , " he said , aloud , " what can be done in the way of ...
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... expected . She was quite incongruous with his notion of ministers ' daughters in general ; and though he had expected something nowise delightful , the incongruity repelled him . A very delicate scent , the faint suggestion of a garden ...
... expected . She was quite incongruous with his notion of ministers ' daughters in general ; and though he had expected something nowise delightful , the incongruity repelled him . A very delicate scent , the faint suggestion of a garden ...
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Page 406 - ... good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 75 - For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool : for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
Page 328 - ... the way water would act. Now, all the schemes about voting, and districts, and annual Parliaments, and the rest, are engines, and the water or steam — the force that is to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these feelings ; and if we have false expectations about men's characters, we are very much like the idiot who thinks he'll carry milk in a can without a bottom. In my opinion,...
Page 341 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do 5*5 And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for...
Page 85 - For she is dead!" Thy words do pierce my soul! Ah, sweet Theridamas! say so no more; Though she be dead, yet let me think she lives, And feed my mind that dies for want of her.
Page 59 - Holt as a basic statement of what this book is about: . . . there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pasture bare.
Page 318 - And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; that he told her all his heart...
Page 479 - I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Page 246 - For a moment he was fully back in those distant years when he and another brighteyed person had seen no reason why they should not indulge their passion and their vanity, and determine for themselves how their lives should be made delightful in spite of unalterable external conditions. The reasons had been unfolding themselves gradually ever since through all the years which had converted the handsome, soft-eyed, slim young Jermyn (with a touch of sentiment) into a portly lawyer of sixty, for whom...
Page 56 - In this way it happened that Treby Magna gradually passed from being simply a respectable market-town — the heart of a great rural district, where the trade was only such as had close relations with the local landed interest — and took on the more complex life brought by mines and manufactures, which belong more directly to the great circulating system of the nation than to the local system to which they have been superadded ; and in this way it was that Trebian Dissent gradually altered its...