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... heart even the memory of a board- ing - school goddess . The Baronet was , when I saw him , as merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound ; and the Love he had once felt for one woman had spread itself over the whole sex ...
... heart even the memory of a board- ing - school goddess . The Baronet was , when I saw him , as merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound ; and the Love he had once felt for one woman had spread itself over the whole sex ...
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Washington Irving. struck a momentary chill to her heart ; for she was a lone woman , and felt herself fearfully situated . The chill was but transient . My aunt , who was almost as resolute a personage as your uncle , sir , ( turning to ...
Washington Irving. struck a momentary chill to her heart ; for she was a lone woman , and felt herself fearfully situated . The chill was but transient . My aunt , who was almost as resolute a personage as your uncle , sir , ( turning to ...
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... heart . He followed up the vow by jumping off his horse , and making his way past the staring Mynheers into the public room . - May be you've been in the bar - room of an old Flemish inn - faith , but a handsome chamber it was as you'd ...
... heart . He followed up the vow by jumping off his horse , and making his way past the staring Mynheers into the public room . - May be you've been in the bar - room of an old Flemish inn - faith , but a handsome chamber it was as you'd ...
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... heart sickened within him , and he was turning shuddering from the horrible engine , when he beheld a shadowy form , cowering as it were at the foot of the steps which led up to the scaffold . A succession of vivid flashes of lightning ...
... heart sickened within him , and he was turning shuddering from the horrible engine , when he beheld a shadowy form , cowering as it were at the foot of the steps which led up to the scaffold . A succession of vivid flashes of lightning ...
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... heart of the student melted at the words . " If a stranger dare make an offer , " said he , " without danger of being misunderstood , I would offer my humble dwelling as a shelter ; myself as a devoted friend . I am friendless myself in ...
... heart of the student melted at the words . " If a stranger dare make an offer , " said he , " without danger of being misunderstood , I would offer my humble dwelling as a shelter ; myself as a devoted friend . I am friendless myself in ...
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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.