The Argosy, Volume 18Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood Strahan & Company, 1874 - Adventure stories, English A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems. |
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... weeks in the south of France before venturing to encounter the more variable and trying climate of his own country . It was while thus enjoying himself that the letters and papers sent back from India reached him . It was a terrible ...
... weeks in the south of France before venturing to encounter the more variable and trying climate of his own country . It was while thus enjoying himself that the letters and papers sent back from India reached him . It was a terrible ...
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... weeks in the south of France before venturing to encounter the more variable and trying climate of his own country . It was while thus enjoying himself that the letters and papers sent back from India reached him . It was a terrible ...
... weeks in the south of France before venturing to encounter the more variable and trying climate of his own country . It was while thus enjoying himself that the letters and papers sent back from India reached him . It was a terrible ...
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... week ? I'm an old campaigner , and could have my rattletraps ready in a few hours . " " But to go away thus , " resumed Tom , " with the red stain of mur- der clinging to his name ; with the foul conspiracy to destroy him still ...
... week ? I'm an old campaigner , and could have my rattletraps ready in a few hours . " " But to go away thus , " resumed Tom , " with the red stain of mur- der clinging to his name ; with the foul conspiracy to destroy him still ...
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... week after Tom's visit he wrote to his nephew , telling him where he was , and asking him to go over and see him in Paris . The invitation was one which Kester obeyed with alacrity . He had always held firmly to the belief that his ...
... week after Tom's visit he wrote to his nephew , telling him where he was , and asking him to go over and see him in Paris . The invitation was one which Kester obeyed with alacrity . He had always held firmly to the belief that his ...
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... week of the date of your cousin's trial . You were not too ill to play whist with Colonel Lexington , and win fifty guineas from that gentle- man by betting on the odd trick . You were not afraid of walking home afterwards through the ...
... week of the date of your cousin's trial . You were not too ill to play whist with Colonel Lexington , and win fifty guineas from that gentle- man by betting on the odd trick . You were not afraid of walking home afterwards through the ...
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Page 140 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
Page 138 - Richmond, took to the road, became captain of a formidable gang, and had the honour to be named first in a royal proclamation against notorious offenders ; how at the head of his troop he stopped a lady's coach, in which there was a booty of four hundred pounds ; how he took only one hundred, and suffered the fair owner to ransom the rest by dancing a coranto with him on the heath...
Page 212 - For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 140 - In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it— add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics.
Page 62 - And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships...
Page 138 - It was related how Claude Duval, the French page of the Duke of Richmond, took to the road, became captain of a formidable gang, and had the honor to be named first in a royal proclamation against notorious offenders; how at the...
Page 349 - THE Lord is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I fear ? the Lord is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraid?
Page 140 - I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Page 76 - But I have no rest : I am in hourly fear of it." "fear/" uttered Gerard, in astonishment. Alice winced, and leaned her head upon her hand : she spoke in a low tone. " You must understand what I mean, Mr. Hope. The affair has been productive of so much pain and annoyance to me, that I wish it could be ignored for ever.
Page 349 - Washington is a great factor, for "the path of the just is as a shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.