Joshua Haggard's Daughter: A Novel, Količina 3J. Maxwell, 1876 |
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afternoon agen answered Naomi arms Arnold Pentreath asked aunt Judith Barnstaple blessed brother brother's fate Captain Pentreath chapel coach Combhaven cried Arnold Cynthia dark darling sin daughter dear dearest death despair door duty earthly escritoire evil Exeter Cathedral eyes face father fear feel flock forgive God's gone Grange guilt hand happy heard heart Heaven heerd Henbury honour hope hour Joshua Haggard knew lamp still burned letter lifted light looked lover marriage mind minister Miss Haggard murderer never Nicholas night old shaft Oswald Pentreath pale pardon parlour passion peace Penmoyle pity poor sake Satan seemed sinners slowly sorrow Sorrows of Werther soul stood strange sure talk tell things thought told took treath trunks Truro voice waiting walk wandering watch weary Weblings Werther wife wild William Law woman young Squire
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Stran 142 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Stran 212 - In those days they shall say no more, "The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge." But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Stran 61 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Stran 185 - And now let me go forth to meet my accuser,' said Joshua, opening the door of his pulpit and coming slowly down the stair. Naomi had come out into the aisle. She threw herself in his way as he passed, and linked her arm through his; and thus linked they came along the narrow space together, the congregation falling back a little to let them pass. Joshua did not repulse his daughter. He suffered...
Stran 277 - He recovered consciousness after several hours, but has never been quite right in his mind since the seizure. Feeling assured that you and the rest of his family would desire to be with him at such a time, I hasten to communicate the sad state of affairs, and beg you to make whatever use you please of our small abode. It is entirely at your disposal, and my elder sister and self will consider it a privilege to do all in our power to ameliorate your sorrow by such attentions as sympathetic hearts...
Stran 239 - And now there was a thought of horror in the very road by which she went. Twice had her murdered lover been carried along that road ; and now he was lying quietly in his grave, and all earthly hopes lay buried with him. The old house looked peaceful enough in the cheerful morning light. Gardens and shrubberies had been better kept since Arnold's return. The beds and borders were full of sweet-smelling flowers.
Stran 223 - She put her arms round his neck, and rested her head on his shoulder. "You know how I loved Oswald, father, to the last, even after his heart had gone away from me. But I told you then, as I tell you now, you were always first and dearest, always the object of my highest reverence and love. That could never change in me. No act of yours could lessen my love, no affliction Heaven could bring upon you could lower you in my esteem. Remember that always, father. Come what may, I am your loving daughter...
Stran 184 - Little Bethel being somewhat higher than the chapel itself. All was over, then. The worst an avenging God could bring to pass had come. Her father was known to others as that which she had in so many an hour of agony suspected him to be. He was known as a murderer. By some means or other the secret had been made known. God's ways are wonderful and mysterious. She had always thought that it would be so. Her lost lover's blood cried aloud for vengeance, and the Great Avenger had heard the cry. At last...
Stran 272 - And I cast her from me, I repudiated her, I spurned her as the vilest of sinners ! 0 friend, can her injured spirit look down upon me from heaven, and pity ? Can God ever pardon my sin ? He gave me this sweet flower to wear in my bosom, and I cast it from me, and trampled it under my foot. I have steeped my soul in sin, I have dyed my hands with blood ! ' The two spinsters and the minister looked at each other with an awful significance.
Stran 198 - Common. That picture of the man standing by the door of the enginehouse as if watching for some one impressed and puzzled the jury, but it could not shake them in their conviction that Joshua Haggard was a good man — a man who had taught and reproved them for many years, and who had always dealt honourably with them in temporal matters — a man whose weights were true as the sundial on the church tower, and whose goods were of the best quality. That such a man could commit a base and cowardly...