The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 Seiten |
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... called upon me up to the hour just men- tioned , for how could invalids stir out in such weather ? The wind was cold and bitter - the aspect of things without , in short , most melancholy and cheerless . " There are one or two poor ...
... called upon me up to the hour just men- tioned , for how could invalids stir out in such weather ? The wind was cold and bitter - the aspect of things without , in short , most melancholy and cheerless . " There are one or two poor ...
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... called upon you this morning , sir ? I am sorry she has just stepped out , but she will return soon . She will be very sorry she was not at home when you called . " " I should have been happy to see Mrs. Elliott , but I understood from ...
... called upon you this morning , sir ? I am sorry she has just stepped out , but she will return soon . She will be very sorry she was not at home when you called . " " I should have been happy to see Mrs. Elliott , but I understood from ...
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... called upon to do , and felt himself the subject of frequent and offensive remark , as well as suspicion . The ill treatment of his superi- ors , however , and the impertinences of his equals and inferiors , he treated with the same ...
... called upon to do , and felt himself the subject of frequent and offensive remark , as well as suspicion . The ill treatment of his superi- ors , however , and the impertinences of his equals and inferiors , he treated with the same ...
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... that after about half an hour's trial , in the course of which Hillary was called as a witness , and trembled so excessively as to call forth some en- couraging expressions from the bench , the judge who tried 68 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK .
... that after about half an hour's trial , in the course of which Hillary was called as a witness , and trembled so excessively as to call forth some en- couraging expressions from the bench , the judge who tried 68 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK .
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... called one of the female servants , who brought up with her , at his request , a glass of water - taking the stranger to be some relative or friend of the porter's . He forced a little into her mouth ; the maid loosed her bonnet string ...
... called one of the female servants , who brought up with her , at his request , a glass of water - taking the stranger to be some relative or friend of the porter's . He forced a little into her mouth ; the maid loosed her bonnet string ...
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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.