Kate Devereux [by A.H. Plomer]. |
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Abbé de Dillon Aberfeldy acquaintance advice Annie's annoyed anxious appearance Betta better Burnet Castlemaine Charteris child countenance dare say daughter dear mother dear young lady Dees doctor door entered excited exclaimed Annie exclaimed Kate eyes face feel felt gave gipsy girl give hand happy hashish hear heard heart Hoozoor Sydajee hope hour inquired Jemima John Baron Kate Devereux Kate's laughing least leave London looked Madame de Beaurevoir Madame di Valdigamas Mademoiselle maid Marchioness Marjory Marjory's marriage married mean mind Miss Baron Miss Devereux Miss Jones Miss Mitten mistress morning never night old lady once Ostend passed perhaps person physician poor Kate rejoined replied Kate reux Salomé seemed singular sister smile soon speak strange sure talk tears tell thing thought tion to-morrow told took turned uncle whispered wish woman
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Seite 71 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Seite 232 - WHEN COLDNESS WRAPS THIS SUFFERING CLAY. WHEN coldness wraps this suffering clay, Ah, whither strays the immortal mind? It cannot die, it cannot stay, But leaves its darken'd dust behind. Then, unembodied, doth it trace...
Seite 279 - Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen: He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate Ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply. Oh thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and too soon elate.
Seite 202 - And could we choose the time, and choose aright, 'Tis best to die, our honour at the height. When we have done our ancestors no shame, But served our friends, and well secured our fame; Then should we wish our happy life to close, And leave no more for fortune to dispose...
Seite 54 - No, aunt, but I went. Instead of superintending the place, and taking the labor from your shoulders, who have no one else to depend on — I must set up for a gentleman — see city life, aunt. I wish from the bottom of my heart that I had never left you...
Seite 258 - ... He called wildly upon his daughter, he stretched out his arms to the opposing grate, he vociferated with all his might for help, and his wife and children screamed as loudly as himself. The nuns, believing that the uproar was only a renewal of the original contest, kept carefully out of the way, and it was some time before they could be made to comprehend the situation of their Abbess. Her first words on opening her eyes was to request her father not to leave that day.
Seite 115 - do you know what time it is? I shall never leave you down-stairs alone again, if this is the way you are going to do." " I am sure I hope you will not," said Grace, as she threw herself on the bed and, covering her face with her hands, wept such bitter tears as she had never shed before. " What is the matter — what has happened ?" said Laura, really alarmed, " is father sick ?"
Seite 261 - Realizing this after a time, it occurred to me that the best thing I could do in the circumstances...
Seite 199 - asking for any voice in the control of foreign affairs; that it would "be better for her to have nothing to do with assuming any such '
Seite 294 - Annie's expression of pain recalled him to himself ; he was ashamed, and he covered his face with his hands. When he looked up he was alone ; Annie had stolen out of the room — he never saw her again.