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... thing was heard but the nasal communications of two or three veteran masticators , who having been silent while awake , were indemnifying the company in their sleep . At length the announcement of tea and coffee in the cedar- parlor ...
... thing was heard but the nasal communications of two or three veteran masticators , who having been silent while awake , were indemnifying the company in their sleep . At length the announcement of tea and coffee in the cedar- parlor ...
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... thing as a haunted chamber to put a guest in ? " " Perhaps , " said the Baronet , smiling , " I might accommodate you even on that point . " " Oh , I should like it of all things , my jewel . Some dark oaken room , with ugly , wobegone ...
... thing as a haunted chamber to put a guest in ? " " Perhaps , " said the Baronet , smiling , " I might accommodate you even on that point . " " Oh , I should like it of all things , my jewel . Some dark oaken room , with ugly , wobegone ...
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... thing a chance to happen . Come , never mind our uncle's age ; let us have his adventures . " The inquisitive gentleman being for the moment silenced , the old gentleman with the haunted head proceeded . THE ADVENTURE OF MY UNCLE . MANY ...
... thing a chance to happen . Come , never mind our uncle's age ; let us have his adventures . " The inquisitive gentleman being for the moment silenced , the old gentleman with the haunted head proceeded . THE ADVENTURE OF MY UNCLE . MANY ...
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... thing , for he was too old a traveller to be daunted by a wild - looking apartment ; but the night , as I have said , was cold and gusty , and the wind howled about the old turret pretty mnch as it does round this old mansion at this ...
... thing , for he was too old a traveller to be daunted by a wild - looking apartment ; but the night , as I have said , was cold and gusty , and the wind howled about the old turret pretty mnch as it does round this old mansion at this ...
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... thing because it was out of the regular course of events . How- ever , being , as I have before said , a great traveller , and accus- tomed to strange adventures , he drew his nightcap resolutely over his eyes , turned his back to the ...
... thing because it was out of the regular course of events . How- ever , being , as I have before said , a great traveller , and accus- tomed to strange adventures , he drew his nightcap resolutely over his eyes , turned his back to 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.