The two miss Flemings, by the author of 'Rare pale Margaret'.

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1879
 

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Стр. 273 - A braver swell, a swifter sliding ; The river hasteth, her banks recede : Wing-like sails on her bosom gliding Bear down the lily and drown the reed. Stately prows are rising and bowing (Shouts of mariners...
Стр. 194 - We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand : For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
Стр. 170 - Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
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Стр. 165 - I have money, and I have real estate," he says. The girl has read in novels that it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's slave, and so she may be drawn by the commercial offering.
Стр. 146 - Her long thin hands, and ivory-channelled feet, Were wasted with the wasting of her soul. Then peevishly she flung her on her face, And hid her eyeballs from the blinding glare, And fingered at the grass, and tried to cool Her crisp hot lips against the crisp hot sward...
Стр. 35 - ... all and each Would draw from her, alike, the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thank'd men, — good ; but thank'd Somehow, . . I know not how, . . as if she rank'd My gift of a nine hundred years' old name With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame This sort of trifling ? " * * » * " Oh, Sir, she smiled no doubt, Whene'er I pass'd her : but who pass'd without Much the same smile ? This grew ! — I gave commands : — Then all smiles...

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