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... Master's noble Thought . How softly , one by one , and with what thoughtful faces , made melancholy by so much loving labor , en- ter , each to his nightly station behind his dusky mu- sic - desk , the gentle makers of sweet sounds ...
... Master's noble Thought . How softly , one by one , and with what thoughtful faces , made melancholy by so much loving labor , en- ter , each to his nightly station behind his dusky mu- sic - desk , the gentle makers of sweet sounds ...
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... master wizard of this wondrous sorcery . His brow is wrinkled into music - scores ; his sunken eyes are like two hollow breves ; his hair is white and thin . Softly , softly ! he taps with muffled wand at the door of the unknown world ...
... master wizard of this wondrous sorcery . His brow is wrinkled into music - scores ; his sunken eyes are like two hollow breves ; his hair is white and thin . Softly , softly ! he taps with muffled wand at the door of the unknown world ...
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... masters , respectfully requested the good woman , in the name of the Count and Countess R- to do the count and countess the favor to join them in the private cabin , and to bring with her the little boy , for whose comfort and ...
... masters , respectfully requested the good woman , in the name of the Count and Countess R- to do the count and countess the favor to join them in the private cabin , and to bring with her the little boy , for whose comfort and ...
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... masters to paint their own portraits in the foreground of their pictures ; nay , even to represent themselves therein as saints and apostles . Saints and apostles they were in their pictures , if not out of them , and this no matter how ...
... masters to paint their own portraits in the foreground of their pictures ; nay , even to represent themselves therein as saints and apostles . Saints and apostles they were in their pictures , if not out of them , and this no matter how ...
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... master are combined to deceive your penetration , and lend to the body of disease the graceful semblance of a charm whose substantial vir- tue is only in the gift of health . In that smiling vision of a pretty woman , bosomed in an airy ...
... master are combined to deceive your penetration , and lend to the body of disease the graceful semblance of a charm whose substantial vir- tue is only in the gift of health . In that smiling vision of a pretty woman , bosomed in an airy ...
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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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