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... woman younger than himself , I discarded pink and gauze , and became Mrs. Eleanor twenty years before the accustomed period ; but one had better err on the side of over- decorum . From this time my intimacy with Mrs Prudentia was what I ...
... woman younger than himself , I discarded pink and gauze , and became Mrs. Eleanor twenty years before the accustomed period ; but one had better err on the side of over- decorum . From this time my intimacy with Mrs Prudentia was what I ...
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... woman should be allowed to steal thus silently to the grave ! " " I presume , " said I , " Lady Selina was a very extraordinary character ; I wonder I never heard of her . " The sententious doctor turned up his eyes , and admitted it ...
... woman should be allowed to steal thus silently to the grave ! " " I presume , " said I , " Lady Selina was a very extraordinary character ; I wonder I never heard of her . " The sententious doctor turned up his eyes , and admitted it ...
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... woman , even if I don't leave you mine ; the more is the pity . However , it is our duty to submit , and make the best defence we can , when the cam- paign goes against us . I remain Your affectionate uncle , WALTER MANDEVILLE . " Among ...
... woman , even if I don't leave you mine ; the more is the pity . However , it is our duty to submit , and make the best defence we can , when the cam- paign goes against us . I remain Your affectionate uncle , WALTER MANDEVILLE . " Among ...
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... woman I know , singularly dis- creet I mean ; and , indeed , my dear ' little Emily , you are very like her . Such prudence at your age is wonder- ful . But I hope you will repay your uncle's kindness by fixing at Mande- ville castle ...
... woman I know , singularly dis- creet I mean ; and , indeed , my dear ' little Emily , you are very like her . Such prudence at your age is wonder- ful . But I hope you will repay your uncle's kindness by fixing at Mande- ville castle ...
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... woman who had now lost her only friend . Though Emily had seen nothing of the world , all the ingenuousness of in- nocence could not prevent her from perceiving that her uncle's attentions were peculiarly grateful to this lady , and ...
... woman who had now lost her only friend . Though Emily had seen nothing of the world , all the ingenuousness of in- nocence could not prevent her from perceiving that her uncle's attentions were peculiarly grateful to this lady , and ...
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Seite 222 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Seite 255 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Seite 192 - You hate me, you despise me ! you do well ; For what I've done I hate and scorn myself. Oh, night, fall on me ! I shall blush to death.
Seite 202 - Prince! I blush to think what I have said, But fate has wrested the confession from me; Go on, and prosper in the paths of honour, Thy virtue will excuse my passion for thee, And make the Gods propitious to our love.
Seite 239 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.