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... dress was of an ancient fashion , ample in volume , and sweeping the floor . She walked up to the fireplace , without regarding my uncle , who raised his nightcap with one hand , and stared earnestly at her . She remained for some time ...
... dress was of an ancient fashion , ample in volume , and sweeping the floor . She walked up to the fireplace , without regarding my uncle , who raised his nightcap with one hand , and stared earnestly at her . She remained for some time ...
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... dress- ing , he called vaguely to mind the visitor of the preceding night . He asked the ancient domestic what lady was in the habit of rambling about this part of the chateau at night . The old valet shrugged his shoulders as high as ...
... dress- ing , he called vaguely to mind the visitor of the preceding night . He asked the ancient domestic what lady was in the habit of rambling about this part of the chateau at night . The old valet shrugged his shoulders as high as ...
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... dresses , as the poor Duchess and her females presented , each seated behind her cava- lier while the half - drenched , half - drowsy pages and attendants seemed ready to fall from their horses with sleep and fatigue . : " The Duchess ...
... dresses , as the poor Duchess and her females presented , each seated behind her cava- lier while the half - drenched , half - drowsy pages and attendants seemed ready to fall from their horses with sleep and fatigue . : " The Duchess ...
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... dress , and thinking of the squire . Her sigh was re - echoed , or answered by a long - drawn breath . She looked round again , but no one was to be seen . She ascribed these sounds to the wind oozing through the rat - holes of the old ...
... dress , and thinking of the squire . Her sigh was re - echoed , or answered by a long - drawn breath . She looked round again , but no one was to be seen . She ascribed these sounds to the wind oozing through the rat - holes of the old ...
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... dress . She even hummed an air , and did not make a ingle false note . She casually overturned a dressing - box ; took a candle and picked up the articles one by one from the floor ; pur- sued a rolling pincushion that was making the ...
... dress . She even hummed an air , and did not make a ingle false note . She casually overturned a dressing - box ; took a candle and picked up the articles one by one from the floor ; pur- sued a rolling pincushion that was making the ...
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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.