The Days of My Life: An Autobiography, Том 1Hurst and Blackett, 1857 |
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... watched his lofty figure retiring into the darkness , and returning to the light with reverence and awe . He was not a country gentleman dispossessed of his property to my overstrained imagination , but a king compelled to abdicate , a ...
... watched his lofty figure retiring into the darkness , and returning to the light with reverence and awe . He was not a country gentleman dispossessed of his property to my overstrained imagination , but a king compelled to abdicate , a ...
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... the sky at my right hand . A light in a window is a strange lure to imagination - I watched them with interest and pleasure - they were unknown , yet they were neighbours - and it was pleasant from hearing the wind without , and 68 THE ...
... the sky at my right hand . A light in a window is a strange lure to imagination - I watched them with interest and pleasure - they were unknown , yet they were neighbours - and it was pleasant from hearing the wind without , and 68 THE ...
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... watched them , wondering if they still talked of me . Then there came out , one by one , these lights in the windows , some of them looking faint and steady like true student's lamps , some suspiciously bright as though there was merry ...
... watched them , wondering if they still talked of me . Then there came out , one by one , these lights in the windows , some of them looking faint and steady like true student's lamps , some suspiciously bright as though there was merry ...
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... watched my father while we dined how tremulously I noted every motion of his hand , every change of his posi- tion ... watched as I had watched so often , the lights gleaming in the windows of the College , I wondered now with a strange ...
... watched my father while we dined how tremulously I noted every motion of his hand , every change of his posi- tion ... watched as I had watched so often , the lights gleaming in the windows of the College , I wondered now with a strange ...
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... watched my father eagerly . He cleared his voice a great many times , as if to speak - changed his position - glanced at me ; but did not seem able to say anything after all . My father had a faint VOL . I. R smile upon his face ...
... watched my father eagerly . He cleared his voice a great many times , as if to speak - changed his position - glanced at me ; but did not seem able to say anything after all . My father had a faint VOL . I. R smile upon his face ...
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