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... doubt all seen French chateaus , as every body travels in France now - a - days . This was one of the oldest ; standing naked and alone in the midst of a desert of gravel walks and cold stone terraces ; with a cold - looking formal ...
... doubt all seen French chateaus , as every body travels in France now - a - days . This was one of the oldest ; standing naked and alone in the midst of a desert of gravel walks and cold stone terraces ; with a cold - looking formal ...
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... doubt for an awkward piece of English pleasantry , which politeness required him to be charmed with . My uncle went on gravely , however , and related the whole circumstance . The Marquis heard him through with profound attention ...
... doubt for an awkward piece of English pleasantry , which politeness required him to be charmed with . My uncle went on gravely , however , and related the whole circumstance . The Marquis heard him through with profound attention ...
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... doubt whether he were in drollery or earnest . 66 Egad , " said the knowing gentleman , with the flexible nose , " this story of your uncle puts me in mind of one that used to be told of an aunt of mine , by the mother's side ; though I ...
... doubt whether he were in drollery or earnest . 66 Egad , " said the knowing gentleman , with the flexible nose , " this story of your uncle puts me in mind of one that used to be told of an aunt of mine , by the mother's side ; though I ...
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... doubt whether to go ; and then walked quietly out . She hastened down stairs , ordered the servants to arm them .. selves with the weapons first at hand , placed herself at their head , and returned almost immediately . Her hastily ...
... doubt whether to go ; and then walked quietly out . She hastened down stairs , ordered the servants to arm them .. selves with the weapons first at hand , placed herself at their head , and returned almost immediately . Her hastily ...
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... the last person who had dwelt in that chamber was a famous juggler who had died of St. Vitus's dance , and had no doubt infected all the furniture . This set all things to rights , particularly when the THE BOLD DRAGOON . 3333.
... the last person who had dwelt in that chamber was a famous juggler who had died of St. Vitus's dance , and had no doubt infected all the furniture . This set all things to rights , particularly when the THE BOLD DRAGOON . 3333.
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Página 161 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 230 - ... true sympathy; how few love us for ourselves; how few will befriend us in our misfortunes; then it is that we think of the mother we have lost. It is true I had always loved my mother, even in my most heedless days; but I felt how inconsiderate and ineffectual had been my love. My heart melted as I retraced the days of infancy, when I was led by a mother's hand, and rocked to sleep in a mother's arms, and was without care or sorrow. "O my mother!
Página 363 - Now I remember those old women's words, Who in my wealth would tell me winter's tales, And speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night About the place where treasure hath been hid...
Página xi - There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.