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... the Love he had once felt for one woman had spread itself over the whole sex ; so that there was not a pretty face in the whole coun try round but came in for a share . The dinner was prolonged till a late hour ; for The Hunting Dinner,
... the Love he had once felt for one woman had spread itself over the whole sex ; so that there was not a pretty face in the whole coun try round but came in for a share . The dinner was prolonged till a late hour ; for The Hunting Dinner,
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... round the board , every one edging his chair a little nearer . The attention of the whole company was now turned upon the speaker . He was an old gentleman , one side of whose face was no match for the other . The eyelid drooped and ...
... round the board , every one edging his chair a little nearer . The attention of the whole company was now turned upon the speaker . He was an old gentleman , one side of whose face was no match for the other . The eyelid drooped and ...
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... round this old mansion at this moment ; and the breeze from the long dark corridor came in as damp and chilly as if from a dungeon . My uncle , therefore , since he could not close the door , threw a quantity of wood on the fire , which ...
... round this old mansion at this moment ; and the breeze from the long dark corridor came in as damp and chilly as if from a dungeon . My uncle , therefore , since he could not close the door , threw a quantity of wood on the fire , which ...
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... round , casting a glassy look about the apart- ment , which , as it passed over my uncle , made his blood run cold , and chilled the very marrow in his bones . It then stretched its arms towards heaven , clasped its hands , and wringing ...
... round , casting a glassy look about the apart- ment , which , as it passed over my uncle , made his blood run cold , and chilled the very marrow in his bones . It then stretched its arms towards heaven , clasped its hands , and wringing ...
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... the ghost must have been the old housekeeper walking her rounds to see that all was right . " " Bah ! " said the narrator . " My uncle was too much accus- tomed to strange sights not to know a ghost from 36 TALES OF A TRAVELLER . 36.
... the ghost must have been the old housekeeper walking her rounds to see that all was right . " " Bah ! " said the narrator . " My uncle was too much accus- tomed to strange sights not to know a ghost from 36 TALES OF A TRAVELLER . 36.
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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.