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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... woman ought to care for the man she is about to marry ; and she would appeal to his generosity to relieve her from an engagement that had now become utterly distasteful to her . His letters from abroad were so infrequent , so brief ...
... woman ought to care for the man she is about to marry ; and she would appeal to his generosity to relieve her from an engagement that had now become utterly distasteful to her . His letters from abroad were so infrequent , so brief ...
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... woman , and when it was closed she had been dead some time ; and she lived fully the number of years allotted to mankind . Before her death a great change had taken place in the small household behind the tiny dark room where the ...
... woman , and when it was closed she had been dead some time ; and she lived fully the number of years allotted to mankind . Before her death a great change had taken place in the small household behind the tiny dark room where the ...
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... woman stopped , and looked round at her . " I suppose , " said Keturah , " that if people ask you about this child you'd like to be able to tell them something ? " " Sure enough , if I knew it . " " Very well , " said Keturah . " If ...
... woman stopped , and looked round at her . " I suppose , " said Keturah , " that if people ask you about this child you'd like to be able to tell them something ? " " Sure enough , if I knew it . " " Very well , " said Keturah . " If ...
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... woman , my dear , " said the Rector ; " and it makes me very happy to be able to say so . I will go and see old Tibby about it myself . " And so the matter of Steenie's companion was settled satisfactorily to all parties . The years ...
... woman , my dear , " said the Rector ; " and it makes me very happy to be able to say so . I will go and see old Tibby about it myself . " And so the matter of Steenie's companion was settled satisfactorily to all parties . The years ...
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... woman asked what troubled her . " Trouble ! " said Steenie , looking up a little . " I don't know , exactly : or , perhaps Well , yes , it is a sort of trouble . I am puzzled , Tibby . " She was puzzled very frequently before long , and ...
... woman asked what troubled her . " Trouble ! " said Steenie , looking up a little . " I don't know , exactly : or , perhaps Well , yes , it is a sort of trouble . I am puzzled , Tibby . " She was puzzled very frequently before long , and ...
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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.