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... woman , and a perfect master of the art of pleasing , had the mortification of being jilted by a little boarding - school girl , who was scarcely versed in the accidence of love . The Baronet was completely overcome by such an ...
... woman , and a perfect master of the art of pleasing , had the mortification of being jilted by a little boarding - school girl , who was scarcely versed in the accidence of love . The Baronet was completely overcome by such an ...
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... woman . My uncle was a thin , puny little man , very meek and acquiescent , and no match for my aunt . It was observed that he dwindled and dwindled gradually away , from the day of his marriage . His wife's powerful mind was too much ...
... woman . My uncle was a thin , puny little man , very meek and acquiescent , and no match for my aunt . It was observed that he dwindled and dwindled gradually away , from the day of his marriage . His wife's powerful mind was too much ...
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... woman who behaved so well to the memory of one husband deserved soon to get another . It was not long after this that she went to take up her resi dence in an old country - seat in Derbyshire , which had long been in the care of merely ...
... woman who behaved so well to the memory of one husband deserved soon to get another . It was not long after this that she went to take up her resi dence in an old country - seat in Derbyshire , which had long been in the care of merely ...
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... 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 the old story teller , ) became instantly calm and collected . She went on ...
... 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 the old story teller , ) became instantly calm and collected . She went on ...
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... woman of spirit , and apt to take the law in her own hands . She had her own notions of cleanliness also . She ordered the fellow to be drawn through the horse - pond , to cleanse away all offences , and then to be well rubbed down with ...
... woman of spirit , and apt to take the law in her own hands . She had her own notions of cleanliness also . She ordered the fellow to be drawn through the horse - pond , to cleanse away all offences , and then to be well rubbed down with ...
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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.