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... father , only worse - a wild sort of half natural , who got into bad company . They said his mother hated him and wished him dead ; for she'd got another son , quite of a dif- ferent cut , who had gone to foreign parts when he was a ...
... father , only worse - a wild sort of half natural , who got into bad company . They said his mother hated him and wished him dead ; for she'd got another son , quite of a dif- ferent cut , who had gone to foreign parts when he was a ...
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... father was as thin as a herring . How is my father ? Where is he ? " Mrs. Transome just pointed to the curtained doorway , and let her son pass through it alone . She was not given to tears ; but now , under the pressure of emotion that ...
... father was as thin as a herring . How is my father ? Where is he ? " Mrs. Transome just pointed to the curtained doorway , and let her son pass through it alone . She was not given to tears ; but now , under the pressure of emotion that ...
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... father is ! Paralysis , eh ? Terribly shrunk and shaken - crawls about among his books and beetles as usual , though . Well , it's a slow and easy death . But he's not much over sixty - five , is he ? " " Sixty - seven , counting by ...
... father is ! Paralysis , eh ? Terribly shrunk and shaken - crawls about among his books and beetles as usual , though . Well , it's a slow and easy death . But he's not much over sixty - five , is he ? " " Sixty - seven , counting by ...
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... father being weakly . We'll set all that right . You shall have nothing to do now but to be grandmamma on satin cushions . " " You must excuse me from the satin cushions . That is a part of the old woman's duty I am not prepared for . I ...
... father being weakly . We'll set all that right . You shall have nothing to do now but to be grandmamma on satin cushions . " " You must excuse me from the satin cushions . That is a part of the old woman's duty I am not prepared for . I ...
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... father now and then for the sake of being kind , and looking on with a pitying shrug as he saw him watch Hickes cutting his food . Mrs. Transome thought with some bitterness that Harold showed more feeling for her feeble husband , who ...
... father now and then for the sake of being kind , and looking on with a pitying shrug as he saw him watch Hickes cutting his food . Mrs. Transome thought with some bitterness that Harold showed more feeling for her feeble husband , who ...
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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...