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... feel and believe what I say ; and I avow that it is with reluct ance , almost with loathing , that I ever look up from the lowly barriers of the orchestra to those sumptuous boxes above it , where the same bloated cherubs eter- nally ...
... feel and believe what I say ; and I avow that it is with reluct ance , almost with loathing , that I ever look up from the lowly barriers of the orchestra to those sumptuous boxes above it , where the same bloated cherubs eter- nally ...
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... lutely desperate . Suddenly a mysterious stranger ap- peared among the terrified crowd . He said nothing , he betrayed no emotion , but every body seemed to feel the presence of a superior will , and silently 44 THE DOCTOR .
... lutely desperate . Suddenly a mysterious stranger ap- peared among the terrified crowd . He said nothing , he betrayed no emotion , but every body seemed to feel the presence of a superior will , and silently 44 THE DOCTOR .
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From the Papers of a German Physician Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton. feel the presence of a superior will , and silently made way for him . He quietly picked up five of the great cables which had been hopelessly flung by in ...
From the Papers of a German Physician Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton. feel the presence of a superior will , and silently made way for him . He quietly picked up five of the great cables which had been hopelessly flung by in ...
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... feel sure that it involves them both in the anguish of an irre- concilable destiny . " The accident of the day now nearly closed had so long delayed the course of our little steamer , that the sunset was far spent when we passed slowly ...
... feel sure that it involves them both in the anguish of an irre- concilable destiny . " The accident of the day now nearly closed had so long delayed the course of our little steamer , that the sunset was far spent when we passed slowly ...
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... feel that rather to the arms of Death than to the arms of a doctor would you confide the rescued treasure . I have much considered this . In exaggeration itself the true measure can be found , since there it must be , otherwise how ...
... feel that rather to the arms of Death than to the arms of a doctor would you confide the rescued treasure . I have much considered this . In exaggeration itself the true measure can be found , since there it must be , otherwise how ...
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ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE Amasis amethyst apparition appeared arms beautiful boat body Bois de Boulogne brain Breslau brother CHAPTER chateau child Cloth cold consciousness Count Edmond countenance countess croupiers DANIEL BUTTERFIELD dark dead death Divine door dream Dutch Republic ed balls Egyptian eternity face fancy fatal ring father feel Felix felt finger forever Gentleman in Black hand haps hast heard heart honor hour human imagination Juliet Kabyl least light lips living look Loreley man's melancholy ment mind mond mother mysterious nature never night noble object once pain papyrus passed passion patient perhaps physician poor ring rock seemed seize sensation sense Sethos side sight silent Silesia soul sound spectre strange stretched suddenly swimmer thee Theresa thing tion Trente et Quarante turned valet voice words young
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