Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Том 1Macmillan, 1883 |
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... give me any information—— ” " Dear me , " said Mrs. John , " my husband was going to London , I think . Is it about business , or anything I may know ? " " All the world will know to - morrow , " cried the agitated clerk , " unless you ...
... give me any information—— ” " Dear me , " said Mrs. John , " my husband was going to London , I think . Is it about business , or anything I may know ? " " All the world will know to - morrow , " cried the agitated clerk , " unless you ...
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... give up Vernon's to destruction seemed more than giving himself up . But what could the clerks do without the principal ? A lieutenant may fight his ship if the captain fails , or a subaltern replace his leader , but what can the clerks ...
... give up Vernon's to destruction seemed more than giving himself up . But what could the clerks do without the principal ? A lieutenant may fight his ship if the captain fails , or a subaltern replace his leader , but what can the clerks ...
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... give her hand to the head clerk , and send a friendly glance all round , unaware of the harm she was doing to the hapless young men . But after all it was not harm . It was a generous love they felt for her , like the love of chivalry ...
... give her hand to the head clerk , and send a friendly glance all round , unaware of the harm she was doing to the hapless young men . But after all it was not harm . It was a generous love they felt for her , like the love of chivalry ...
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... give to the young clerks in her fine youthful days , in which there was a kind acknowledgment of their admiration , a friendly good fellowship with themselves . " I hope I am not old Edward Vernon's grand- daughter for nothing , " she ...
... give to the young clerks in her fine youthful days , in which there was a kind acknowledgment of their admiration , a friendly good fellowship with themselves . " I hope I am not old Edward Vernon's grand- daughter for nothing , " she ...
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... new dogma . And then he related to her his interview with Mrs. John , and her willingness to give him up her twenty pounds to save the bank . Miss Vernon's first flush of indignation soon yielded to amusement 30 [ CHAP . HESTER .
... new dogma . And then he related to her his interview with Mrs. John , and her willingness to give him up her twenty pounds to save the bank . Miss Vernon's first flush of indignation soon yielded to amusement 30 [ CHAP . HESTER .
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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.