It was a Lover and His Lass, Band 2Hurst and Blackett, 1883 |
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Seite 201 - She held out her hand, but he did not take it. He looked anxiously in her face.
Seite 82 - There was once a saint in Italy,' said Lewis, ' that was not of your opinion about the animals. When he was tired of preaching to men, he preached to the birds or the fishes. The birds made a great noise one day in the middle of his sermon to the men, and he stopped and rebuked them, bidding them be silent till their turn came.
Seite 111 - Jean, and, well pleased, was receiving their congratulations upon the success of everything, when it suddenly occurred to her that amid all the mazes of the dancers Philip was not anywhere visible. She watched with increased anxiety for a time: but after all he might have taken down some lady for refreshments, or to get a breath of fresh air after the dance. ' They will catch their death of cold,' she said,
Seite 128 - You may come with me,' said Miss Jean ; ' but I must go myself, for I am afraid she may have got a cold after all the exposure last night.' Katie went upstairs after Miss Jean, with various reflections upon the happiness of Lilias. ' I was exposed just the same. Oh! much more,' cried Katie to herself,' but nobody thinks 1 can ever take cold.
Seite 8 - Lilias felt assured, was the only man she would ever ' care for,' but a shabby stranger, a man one would never look twice at, with all the appearance of a nobody. Margaret and Jean were never rude to anyone: they would receive him very politely, and request him to come in to the fire, if it was winter—and somehow it was always winter in these imaginations.
Seite 154 - how nice it is to meet with some one who understands without a word! But I am no scapegoat—it is not quite so bad as that.' ' It ought not to be so at all,' Lewis said, with a touch of severity that had never been seen in his friendly face before. Lilias looked at him with a little alarm, and with a great deal of additional respect. And then .she began to defend the culprits, finding them thus placed before a judge so much more decided than herself. ' They don't think I mind—they don't mean...
Seite 33 - Jiill towards Murkley. They crossed in the big ferry-boat, to which they were all accustomed, and which the pony regarded as an every-day matter. Understanding all about the boat, probably he would have felt a bridge to be something more alarming. The day was fine, the river shining in the sun, the trees in their deepest summer wealth of shade. ' Is that the English gentleman that came over to lunch with your master T Mrs. Stormont asked. 'I'm no that sure, mem, that he's English,
Seite 108 - Wait a little, wait a little,' was all he said. And Lilias took no fright from the words. She did not know how near she was to some confession, some appeal that would have startled her at once out of her youthful freshness and serenity. They stood close together, like two different worlds, the one all passion and longing, the other all innocent composure and calm. But by degrees Lilias became impatient of waiting. ' You are kinder than I am,' she whispered,
Seite 199 - It is very different,' he said—' it is love. I did not intend it—I had never thought of it— my mind was turned another way—but I saw her by chance, and what else—what else was possible ? Oh! it is very different. Love is not like anything else. It forces to speak, it makes you bold, it is more strong than I- ' ' You are eloquent,
Seite 11 - She saw in her mind's eye the great fa9ade of that palace, no longer windowless, staring blankly into the daylight and night, but lighted up in every chamber, shining through the woods, and the rooms all full of fine company, and little Lilias the mistress of all. That last particular was a constant delight. She laughed to herself at the thought with the tender ridicule of a great longing. That little thing! It was just nonsense, but how Sweet to think of!—and things as unlikely havc happened,...