Two Women: A NovelHarper & brothers, 1880 - 64 Seiten |
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Seite 15 - But the old lady after a little appeared to recognise, a trifle ungraciously, the girl's superior resources. "Have you written to your mother?" "Yes, but only a few lines, to tell her I shall come and see her in the morning." "Is that all you've got to say?" asked the grandmother. "I don't quite know what you want me to say.
Seite 3 - Then she sat down to smoke and talk to her companions without the slightest embarrassment and acted as if it was the most natural thing in the world for her to be nude.
Seite 18 - You needn't be in such a hurry to get rid of me ; I daresay I shall not live long,
Seite 57 - The most usual practice among them was to blister the [typhoid] patient almost from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet; so that the chief difficulty was to remove the irritative fever induced by this empirical, slovenly practice. In some calomel had been employed, but generally without obvious effect, except increasing the danger of the patient.
Seite 14 - ... the natural prey of superstition. A dream, he used to say, first recalled his mind to the consideration of religion. This was about the year 1810, at the height of those hot debates that preceded the war of 1812. For nine years, he tells us, the subject gradually gained upon him, so that, at last, it was his first thought in the morning and his last at night. From the atheism upon which he had formerly plumed himself, he went to the opposite extreme. For a long time he was plunged into the deepest...
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Seite 6 - ... one that made me leave town. "I understand," I said. "I understand," though, was the wrong thing to say. He tried to kiss me again and I had to put my hand over his face and push it away. I could feel his reaching tongue on my palm. "I'm going to leave," I threatened. "Martha, don't leave. What else do you want to know? I will tell you anything.