Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Том 1Macmillan, 1883 |
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... sort of exhilarated excitement in him , a sentiment quite different from that with which he had been disconsolately straying about , and painfully turning over possibilities , or rather impossibilities . Perhaps it was a half romantic ...
... sort of exhilarated excitement in him , a sentiment quite different from that with which he had been disconsolately straying about , and painfully turning over possibilities , or rather impossibilities . Perhaps it was a half romantic ...
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... sort of amateur grandmother in numbers of young households . A woman with plenty of money , with a handsome , cheerful house , and a happy disposition , she had- at least since her youth was over - never had occa- sion to remember the ...
... sort of amateur grandmother in numbers of young households . A woman with plenty of money , with a handsome , cheerful house , and a happy disposition , she had- at least since her youth was over - never had occa- sion to remember the ...
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... sort of hall , with a great staircase going out of it . From the moment it came into her hands , she made , everybody thought , a toy of the Heronry . She divided it into about half a dozen compartments , each with a separate entrance ...
... sort of hall , with a great staircase going out of it . From the moment it came into her hands , she made , everybody thought , a toy of the Heronry . She divided it into about half a dozen compartments , each with a separate entrance ...
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... sort or other to take care of " the little girl . " Her own maid accompanied her to the gate , then went round to the humbler entrance while Miss Vernon walked through the garden to the pretty verandah newly put up ( but in excellent ...
... sort or other to take care of " the little girl . " Her own maid accompanied her to the gate , then went round to the humbler entrance while Miss Vernon walked through the garden to the pretty verandah newly put up ( but in excellent ...
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... sort of resem- blance to each other in their faces and some- what largely developed figures ; but this , which ought to have been a comfortable and soothing thought , did not occur to either . And it cannot be denied that the first ...
... sort of resem- blance to each other in their faces and some- what largely developed figures ; but this , which ought to have been a comfortable and soothing thought , did not occur to either . And it cannot be denied that the first ...
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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.