The Hillyars and the Burtons, Band 2;Band 163Tauchnitz, 1865 - 674 Seiten |
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ain't aint asked Australia Bardolph beautiful began better Bill Sykes blacksmith called Charles Morton Chelsea Clerkenwell Prison colony Compton Cooksland cousin dark Dawson dead dear devil door Emma Emma's Erne Hillyar Erne's escritoire eyes face father fellow forgive gentle gentleman George's Gerty Gerty's girl gone hand handsome happy head heard heart HENRY KINGSLEY honour inspector Jack Martin JAMES BURTON'S STORY kind kiss knew Lady Hillyar laughing little Jew looked Lord Master Erne morning mother Nalder never night O'Ryan old Morton once Pollifex RAVENSHOE Robert Walpole round Samuel Burton seemed seen silent Sir George Hillyar sitting speak Stanlake stood strange street Sykes talking tell terrible thing thought to-night told Tom Williams took Trevittick trouble turned utterly voice wish woman wonder young
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Seite 117 - If we can find no will And that we shall never do." " You have heard what he has said," said George to Erne, wiping his mangled lips, " and you heard what I said just now. This house is mine. Go. I will never forget and never forgive. Go." Erne turned on his heel, and went without a word. The last he remembers was seeing his brother stand looking at him with his face all bloody, scowling. And then he was out of the house into the sunshine, and all the past was a cloud to him. God had punished him...
Seite 83 - I have called Bill Sykes, had sprung into sight from somewhere, and cast himself headlong at the constables, who were blocking up the door. For one instant I thought he would have got through and escaped ; but only for one. I saw him locked in the deadly grip of a young Irish constable, by name Murphy, and then I saw them hurling one another about the room for a few seconds till they fell together, crashing over a table. They were down and up, and down again, so very quickly, that no one had time...
Seite 2 - white" policeman came to me and I -wondered if he was going to beat me. He asked me what was the matter and I told him that I was trying to find my mother. His "white" face created a new fear in me. I was remembering the tale of the "white" man who had beaten the "black
Seite 59 - ere dog's meat man. She had shrimps and ale with the dog's meat man, And she walked arm in arm with the dog's meat man, And the coves all said, what around did stan', That he were a werry nobby dog's meat man. Oh he were such a handsome dog's meat man, Such a...
Seite 248 - ' said Sir George, somewhat wildly. On any other journey but this, my boy. Stay at home, and keep watch over Lady Hillyar. I will write secretly to you, and you must do the same to me. Now go." So the next day at noon, on George's return from Croydon, he found Reuben waiting for him; and he gave him a few instructions in the library, and bade him wait in the courtyard to see the last of him. Meanwhile Gerty had sat still in her dressing-room, with the child on her bosom, in the same state of stupid...
Seite 213 - ... ranks next in importance after the invention of soda-water — a sort of way of escaping cheaply from the consequences of debauchery for a time. But not only did the new country turn out to be the most wonderfully scentless cesspool for a vast quantity of nameless rubbish, convicted and unconvicted ; but it gave an opening also for really honest, upright fellows like Charles Morton, with no more faults than the best of us, except the very great one of being educated in such a way that no possible...
Seite 246 - Then should you think me a madman if I told you that I was your father?" Reuben started and turned pale. He was utterly unprepared for this. His facile face assumed a look of painful anxiety, and he stood with half-opened mouth, waiting for Sir George to go on, evidently only half understanding what he had said already. " Such is the case,
Seite 213 - The discovery of the vast continent which we call Australia is an important era in the history of the world. For it opened in the first place, a career for young gentlemen possessed of every virtue save those of continence, sobriety and industry, who didn't choose to...