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... fortunes of Monsieur . My uncle saw there was nothing satisfactory to be earnt in this quarter . After breakfast , he was walking with the Marquis through the modern apartments of the chateau , sliding over the well - waxed floors of ...
... fortunes of Monsieur . My uncle saw there was nothing satisfactory to be earnt in this quarter . After breakfast , he was walking with the Marquis through the modern apartments of the chateau , sliding over the well - waxed floors of ...
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... fortunes . Her object was to gain a small port about two leagues distant , where she had privately rovided a vessel for her escape in case of emergency . " The little band of fugitives were obliged to perform the dis- tance on foot ...
... fortunes . Her object was to gain a small port about two leagues distant , where she had privately rovided a vessel for her escape in case of emergency . " The little band of fugitives were obliged to perform the dis- tance on foot ...
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... fortune , or rather , my father was ostentatious beyond his means , and expended so much on his palace , his equipage , and his retinue , that he was continually straitened in his pecuniary circumstances . I was a younger son , and ...
... fortune , or rather , my father was ostentatious beyond his means , and expended so much on his palace , his equipage , and his retinue , that he was continually straitened in his pecuniary circumstances . I was a younger son , and ...
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... fortune ; any place would be more a home to me than the home I had left behind . The vessel was bound to Genoa . We arrived there after a voyage of a few days . No As I entered the harbor between the moles which embrace it , and beheld ...
... fortune ; any place would be more a home to me than the home I had left behind . The vessel was bound to Genoa . We arrived there after a voyage of a few days . No As I entered the harbor between the moles which embrace it , and beheld ...
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... fortunes and myself . We had dwelt together on the works of the famous masters . I had related to her their histories ; the high reputation , the influence , the magnificence to which they had attained . The companions of princes , the ...
... fortunes and myself . We had dwelt together on the works of the famous masters . I had related to her their histories ; the high reputation , the influence , the magnificence to which they had attained . The companions of princes , 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.