Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Том 1Macmillan, 1883 |
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... questions as a man who " could an if he would His mother , for her part , said a great deal . She ran between them like an excited hen , shaking her tail - feathers and cackling violently . دو What did they mean by it ? What was it B 2 ...
... questions as a man who " could an if he would His mother , for her part , said a great deal . She ran between them like an excited hen , shaking her tail - feathers and cackling violently . دو What did they mean by it ? What was it B 2 ...
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... question — or rather his hope— that Mr. Vernon would be home to - morrow early ? I am sure I don't know , " said Mrs. John . " It would be scarcely worth his while to go away if he was to be back so soon . He said perhaps to - morrow ...
... question — or rather his hope— that Mr. Vernon would be home to - morrow early ? I am sure I don't know , " said Mrs. John . " It would be scarcely worth his while to go away if he was to be back so soon . He said perhaps to - morrow ...
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... question be , " Where is Mr. Vernon ? " And where was Mr. Vernon ? Perhaps gone to Bath ; perhaps to France , his wife said . Why should he go to France without letting any one at the bank know , saying he was success . only to be ...
... question be , " Where is Mr. Vernon ? " And where was Mr. Vernon ? Perhaps gone to Bath ; perhaps to France , his wife said . Why should he go to France without letting any one at the bank know , saying he was success . only to be ...
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... questions further , in which there was a good deal of significance , as for instance some- thing about Mrs. John Vernon's marriage settlements , which neither of the others for the moment under- stood . Rule saw Mr. Sellon to the door ...
... questions further , in which there was a good deal of significance , as for instance some- thing about Mrs. John Vernon's marriage settlements , which neither of the others for the moment under- stood . Rule saw Mr. Sellon to the door ...
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... question . If love brings great happiness it brings many woes . Catherine Vernon was like Queen Elizabeth , a dry tree - while other women had sons and daughters . But when the hearts of the mothers were torn with anxiety , she went ...
... question . If love brings great happiness it brings many woes . Catherine Vernon was like Queen Elizabeth , a dry tree - while other women had sons and daughters . But when the hearts of the mothers were torn with anxiety , she went ...
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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.