Felix Holt, the RadicalHarper, 1871 - 529 pages |
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Page 28
... leave room for her darling , of whom she could be proud . Such desires make life a hideous lottery , where every day may turn up a blank ; where men and women who have the softest beds and the most delicate eating , who have a very ...
... leave room for her darling , of whom she could be proud . Such desires make life a hideous lottery , where every day may turn up a blank ; where men and women who have the softest beds and the most delicate eating , who have a very ...
Page 38
... usual share of mother's love . An hour after dinner , Harold , who had already been turning over the leaves of his moth- er's account - books , said , " I shall just cross the park to the parsonage 38 FELIX HOLT , CHAPTER II. ...
... usual share of mother's love . An hour after dinner , Harold , who had already been turning over the leaves of his moth- er's account - books , said , " I shall just cross the park to the parsonage 38 FELIX HOLT , CHAPTER II. ...
Page 40
... leave off shoes and stockings , and walk about like cranes " -whence it fol- lowed plainly enough that , in these hopeless times , nothing was left to men of sense and good family but to retard the . national ruin by declaring ...
... leave off shoes and stockings , and walk about like cranes " -whence it fol- lowed plainly enough that , in these hopeless times , nothing was left to men of sense and good family but to retard the . national ruin by declaring ...
Page 47
... leave me to take my own course in these matters , which properly belong to men . Beyond that , I will gratify any wish you choose to mention . You shall have a new carriage and a pair of bays all to your- self ; you shall have the house ...
... leave me to take my own course in these matters , which properly belong to men . Beyond that , I will gratify any wish you choose to mention . You shall have a new carriage and a pair of bays all to your- self ; you shall have the house ...
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... leave nar- row lanes between them ; for the minister was much given to walking about during his hours of meditation , and very narrow passages would serve for his small legs , unencum- bered by any other drapery than his black silk ...
... leave nar- row lanes between them ; for the minister was much given to walking about during his hours of meditation , and very narrow passages would serve for his small legs , unencum- bered by any other drapery than his black silk ...
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Page 59 - ... 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 pastures bare.