The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 Seiten |
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... answer many of your questions , sir ; for I am very well acquainted with her situation , and was a good deal with her , not long ago . " " Ah , that's well . Then will you be so kind , " giv- ing a monitory glance at my watch , " as to ...
... answer many of your questions , sir ; for I am very well acquainted with her situation , and was a good deal with her , not long ago . " " Ah , that's well . Then will you be so kind , " giv- ing a monitory glance at my watch , " as to ...
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... answer- ' n her absence . One ought to see her to hear her tell her own story - to ask a thousand little questions . I suppose , by - the - way , that she is under the care of a regular professional man ? " " Yes , I believe so - no , I ...
... answer- ' n her absence . One ought to see her to hear her tell her own story - to ask a thousand little questions . I suppose , by - the - way , that she is under the care of a regular professional man ? " " Yes , I believe so - no , I ...
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... answer for it - ahem ! " " Ah , very probable - yes , very likely ! " I replied , sighing - hoping my gossiping host would go on . " " And between you and I , sir , " he resumed , “ it wasn't a bad thing for him to get rid of it ...
... answer for it - ahem ! " " Ah , very probable - yes , very likely ! " I replied , sighing - hoping my gossiping host would go on . " " And between you and I , sir , " he resumed , “ it wasn't a bad thing for him to get rid of it ...
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... answer , Mary ! " 66 Why , papa , it was a very odd thing now , was not it ? " said his daughter , with an affectionate smile , drawing nearer to her father , her knees trembling , however , the while ; " and I know you did it only to ...
... answer , Mary ! " 66 Why , papa , it was a very odd thing now , was not it ? " said his daughter , with an affectionate smile , drawing nearer to her father , her knees trembling , however , the while ; " and I know you did it only to ...
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... answer to what you have been stating , " he commenced , with a melancholy but determined air . " However you may suspect me , and misconstrue and misrepresent my char- acter and motives , I never in my life meditated a dis- honourable ...
... answer to what you have been stating , " he commenced , with a melancholy but determined air . " However you may suspect me , and misconstrue and misrepresent my char- acter and motives , I never in my life meditated a dis- honourable ...
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agitation arms baronet Bill Fowler black puddings Bloomsbury Square bracelet Bullion House Carl Carl's carriage chair coach companion continued counting house dear Dick door dreadful Drysalt Ebury exclaimed eyes father fearful feelings fell fellow felt Forster gasped guineas hand head hear heard heart highwaymen Hillary's honour horse hour hurried husband inquired instantly lady length letter lips looked Lord Scamp Lord Squander lordship ma'am magistrate matter Mincing Lane mind Miss Hillary monk morning never Newfoundland dog night o'clock Old Bailey opened Oxleigh paused pistol poor Elliott present prisoner pugilism replied scarce scene seat seemed servant silence Sir Diggory Sir William Gwynne sitting soon stairs stood stranger suddenly sure tell thee thing thought tion tone Topknot trembling turned uttered voice wagoner walked whispered wife William Fowler words worship wretched
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Seite 349 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Seite 9 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Seite 349 - While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his Dames before: Oft listening how the Hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Seite 349 - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Seite 115 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Seite 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.