At Her Mercy: A Novel by the Author of "Found Dead."B.Taughnitz, 1874 |
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Stran 180 - I do not like thee, Doctor Fell; The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know and know full well. I do not like thee. Doctor Fell!
Stran 84 - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands, How lightly then it flashed along : — Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore. On winding lakes and rivers wide, That ask no aid of sail or oar, That fear no spite of wind or tide ! Nought cared this body for wind or weather When Youth and I lived in't together.
Stran 126 - Or else she dances with becoming grace, Or shape excuses the defects of face. There swims no goose so gray but soon or late She finds some honest gander for her mate.
Stran 191 - ... meekness To all duties of her rank. And a gentle consort made he, And her gentle mind was such That she grew a noble lady, And the people loved her much. But a trouble weighed upon her, And perplexed her night and morn, With the burden of an honour Unto which she was not born.
Stran 118 - ... have been the very thing : beautiful as an angel and as good ; lady-like, accomplished — the adoration of all who had the happiness of her friendship ; only the misfortune was that she was engaged to somebody else. I found another — let us call her No. 2 — who was, also, not without attractions, and whom, upon the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread, I asked to become Mrs.
Stran 230 - would remind us that we ought to know from high authority, ' that the course of true love never did run smooth ;' but I am really sorry to see George so out of spirits, and looking so ill.
Stran 95 - ... within either of the other classes, the averages given in the table for that class cannot be taken as showing the character of the class without more of qualification than in the other cases. Admitting this, it will still be found that, taking considerable periods of the seasons — from seed-time to the end of April, and from the beginning of May to harvest, for example — the averages do clearly bear out the general conclusions to which the consideration of the individual seasons has led,...
Stran 24 - I was going to say, doctor, that if you are quite sure that Balcombe would do dear uncle no good, I would very much rather we did not leave Dunwich.
Stran 39 - ... it was six of one and half a dozen of the other,' the gossips said, but now that one is dead the survivor comes in for all the reprobation.