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... door . Hartwell's eyes followed hers , stupidly . " She - who ? " he asked . " Hilda . " The name came softly , almost like an Hilda's delicious coffee , ate Hilda's crisp bacon , enjoyed. wife's warning signals , that he was not living ...
... door . Hartwell's eyes followed hers , stupidly . " She - who ? " he asked . " Hilda . " The name came softly , almost like an Hilda's delicious coffee , ate Hilda's crisp bacon , enjoyed. wife's warning signals , that he was not living ...
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... door . " Dinner is served , " she announced . Long ancestral avenues seemed to diverge from Hilda . She had an " atmosphere " which had to be lived up to . As in a dream the Hartwells went to the table . The soft light of shaded can ...
... door . " Dinner is served , " she announced . Long ancestral avenues seemed to diverge from Hilda . She had an " atmosphere " which had to be lived up to . As in a dream the Hartwells went to the table . The soft light of shaded can ...
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... doors , the lime- washed walls of white , and ocher , and bril- liant blue , the half - open door revealing a court where a gnarled fig - tree is shading a well , and Ayesha with her yellow vest , her pink trousers , and a striped apron ...
... doors , the lime- washed walls of white , and ocher , and bril- liant blue , the half - open door revealing a court where a gnarled fig - tree is shading a well , and Ayesha with her yellow vest , her pink trousers , and a striped apron ...
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... door , and I looked in . A lantern , hung in the low roof , threw a soft light on two weird figures dressed like the old Moors of Tarik's time , with girdles about their waists , and high tur- bans , like the Persians . They were per ...
... door , and I looked in . A lantern , hung in the low roof , threw a soft light on two weird figures dressed like the old Moors of Tarik's time , with girdles about their waists , and high tur- bans , like the Persians . They were per ...
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... door bathing were withdrawn . The only trouble was that the bathing itself was apt to be lost sight of ; and Miss Loring was compelled to make a rule that after his bath each boy must present himself in his clean nightgown at the ...
... door bathing were withdrawn . The only trouble was that the bathing itself was apt to be lost sight of ; and Miss Loring was compelled to make a rule that after his bath each boy must present himself in his clean nightgown at the ...
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Page 512 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 147 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 746 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 516 - I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Page 42 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 433 - There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.
Page 132 - battlements that on their restless fronts bore stars " — might have been copied from my architectural dreams, for it often occurred. We hear it reported of Dryden, and of Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid dreams: how much better, for such a purpose, to have eaten opium, which yet I do not remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell...
Page 307 - mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes!
Page 512 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
Page 454 - They declared against superstition on the one hand, and enthusiasm on the other. They loved the constitution of the Church, and the Liturgy, and could well live under them: But they did not think it unlawful to live under another form. They wished that things might have been carried with more moderation. And they continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity: From whence they were called men...