Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Том 1Macmillan, 1883 |
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... children , and a poor wife stupefied with trouble . She did her best , poor soul , to bring up her boy to ways the very opposite of those in which his father had stumbled and fallen , and it was supposed that he would marry his cousin ...
... children , and a poor wife stupefied with trouble . She did her best , poor soul , to bring up her boy to ways the very opposite of those in which his father had stumbled and fallen , and it was supposed that he would marry his cousin ...
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... children or her money . The partisans of the Vernons said so at least ; they said so of all the wives that were not Vernons , but interlopers , always working harm . They said so also of Mrs. John , and there his mother thought they ...
... children or her money . The partisans of the Vernons said so at least ; they said so of all the wives that were not Vernons , but interlopers , always working harm . They said so also of Mrs. John , and there his mother thought they ...
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... children learning their lessons . He felt sure that he could not rest ; he would only make her anxious , and why should she be made anxious as long as he could keep it from her . It is difficult to say how it was that the first ...
... children learning their lessons . He felt sure that he could not rest ; he would only make her anxious , and why should she be made anxious as long as he could keep it from her . It is difficult to say how it was that the first ...
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... children's bread . He had not allowed himself to think of these things in the greatness of his anxiety in respect to Vernon's ; but he did think of them now , and was ready to cry in the relief of his soul . Never was an evening more ...
... children's bread . He had not allowed himself to think of these things in the greatness of his anxiety in respect to Vernon's ; but he did think of them now , and was ready to cry in the relief of his soul . Never was an evening more ...
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... children did from the beginning . Miss Vernon's was a reign of great benevolence , of great liberality , but of great firmness too . As she got older she became almost the most important person in Redborough . The people spoke of her ...
... children did from the beginning . Miss Vernon's was a reign of great benevolence , of great liberality , but of great firmness too . As she got older she became almost the most important person in Redborough . The people spoke of her ...
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Стр. 58 - ... her. A waking eye, a prying mind, A heart that stirs, is hard to bind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbour ! gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore, Some summer morning, When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning ? THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES.
Стр. 23 - T is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Стр. 58 - But she was train'd in Nature's school, Nature had blest her. A waking eye, a prying mind, A heart that stirs, is hard to bind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown and silent shore...
Стр. 23 - The work of a successful man of business increased, yet softened by all the countless nothings that make business for a woman, had filled her days. She was an old maid, to be sure, but an old maid who never was alone.
Стр. 80 - Tweak," said Mr. Prodgers, as his friend returned, " I can see there is a great deal of fun to be got out of this trip. Let the commingled circulate." CHAPTER XLVII. The Caravan of Wonders sets out for Clumpley. VERY early the next morning Mr. Prodgers and his fellow-student sought the bedside of the " Whirlwind of the Wilderness...
Стр. 20 - ... in the hands of Miss Vernon, who, it turned out, had more than her grandfather's steady power of holding on, and was, indeed, the heir of her great-grandfather's genius for business. The bank throve in her hands as it had done in his days, and everything it touched prospered.
Стр. 219 - They would not let you work, and if you could work, nothing but, daily bread would come of it. And, my dear Hester, you want a great deal more than daily bread. You want triumph, power ; you want to be as you are by nature, somebody.
Стр. 205 - I've been in love with you ever since I first saw you — when you were only a child.
Стр. 123 - It is such souls as these that keep the world steady. We should all tumble to pieces if the race was made up of people like Catherine Vernon and you.