The Heart of a MaidJ.W. Lovell Company, 1891 - 253 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afraid Agnes Anglo-Indian angry Anstruther asked ayah baby baby's better Bezique Brian Boru bright called Captain Ellis Charlie Raymond cheroot child comfort course Cracroft cried crying dance darling daughter dear delight Dighton Ellis dreadful dress Edie Edie's EDMUND GOSSE engaged Eva's eyes face fancy feel felt fond friends girl groomsmen habit hair hand happy HENRIK IBSEN Hewden hope husband India Kate kiss knew laughed live look Mactarten Madge Maidanpore marriage married Mashobra May's mean mind minute months morning mother never once Percy pity ponies poor pretty quiet remember RICKSHAW ride riding habit round Rudia Scarew seemed Simla sister sort speak spite spoke Squib subaltern sure sympathy talk tell tender thing thought told Tregarven Trent tried trying verandah voice wait wedding WEE WILLIE WINKIE wife woman wonder words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 84 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Seite 76 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Seite 40 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Seite 39 - Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away!
Seite 192 - So we were engaged. Our troth had been plighted Not by moonbeam or starbeam, by fountain or grove; But in a front parlor, most brilliantly lighted, Beneath the gas-fixtures we whispered our love — Without any romance, or raptures, or sighs, Without any tears in Miss Flora's blue eyes, Or blushes, or transports, or such silly actions; It was one of the quietest business transactions, With a very small sprinkling of sentiment...
Seite 102 - A moment after, and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast; But we knew that a bar was broken between Life and life: we were mixed at last In spite of the mortal screen.
Seite 39 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Seite 5 - WHO knows what days I answer for to-day? Giving the bud I give the flower. I bow This yet unfaded and a faded brow; Bending these knees and feeble knees, I pray. Thoughts yet unripe in me I bend one way, Give one repose to pain I know not now, One check to joy that comes, I guess not how.