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... as he answered the questions put to him with regard to Mrs. Wood and Alice . He gave a satisfactory account of them , confirmed Mr. Eliot Foster's supposition that the pretty child had grown up into a still A HOUSE OF CARDS . 33.
... as he answered the questions put to him with regard to Mrs. Wood and Alice . He gave a satisfactory account of them , confirmed Mr. Eliot Foster's supposition that the pretty child had grown up into a still A HOUSE OF CARDS . 33.
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... Alice Wood after his and pushing , and will make his way , no fashion quite sincerely , and even strongly , he doubt ; and yet he impresses me singularly never dwelt in the rage and trouble which unfavourably . Shall I open any communi ...
... Alice Wood after his and pushing , and will make his way , no fashion quite sincerely , and even strongly , he doubt ; and yet he impresses me singularly never dwelt in the rage and trouble which unfavourably . Shall I open any communi ...
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... Alice . To her fanciful mood the distance to which he had gone increased the sense and the pain of parting already ... Alice's face would have seemed wondrously and pathetically beau- tiful , in its purity , its patience , its look ...
... Alice . To her fanciful mood the distance to which he had gone increased the sense and the pain of parting already ... Alice's face would have seemed wondrously and pathetically beau- tiful , in its purity , its patience , its look ...
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... Alice to Henry one a little tired , she said , and ' low ' a strange day , when the hour of their parting — this admission indeed for Mrs. Wood ; and time for an indefinite period- was very Alice put aside her vague trouble , keeping ...
... Alice to Henry one a little tired , she said , and ' low ' a strange day , when the hour of their parting — this admission indeed for Mrs. Wood ; and time for an indefinite period- was very Alice put aside her vague trouble , keeping ...
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... him than that he is not dead , or Foster would have told her . Who the deuce would have thought of that old story cropping up again , and in Gaynor's way too ? " CHAPTER VI . ALICE AIDS THE BUILDER . - and 40 A HOUSE OF CARDS .
... him than that he is not dead , or Foster would have told her . Who the deuce would have thought of that old story cropping up again , and in Gaynor's way too ? " CHAPTER VI . ALICE AIDS THE BUILDER . - and 40 A HOUSE OF CARDS .
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Page 311 - Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 460 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 286 - That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 448 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 47 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner...
Page 461 - ... to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain ; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the • solution of the problem, ' How are these physical processes...
Page 199 - Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 80 - Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe — is it, like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise have attained? Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?
Page 448 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.