Alice Montrose; or, The lofty and the lowly: good in all, and none all good, Volume 3 |
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Allan Allan Clarke answer asked beauty believe Boston brother brow carriage Charles Montrose cheek cousin cried dare dear door dream Dunbar earnest entered exclaimed eyes face fear feeling felt Flowerdale flowers flushed Gaston gentle George Browne give glance Goldwire Grahame's hand happy hear heard heart honour hope hour interest interview Isabelle Isabelle's knew lady Lake George least leave letter Lieutenant Montrose lips looked Major Wharton Marseilles Mary Miss Montrose Miss Willson Montrose Hall morning mother never night Ole Bull pale parlour pleasure present Quakeress racter received Richard Grahame Robert Grahame rose Savannah scarcely seemed seen silent sister smile soon sorrow soul speak spirit spoke Springfield stood tell thing thought thousand dollars tion tone truth turned Uriah uttered Valparaiso voice walked William Clarke wish woman words
Popular passages
Page 177 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 111 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 231 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.
Page 263 - He sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. ' My God, Robin, what is the matter ?
Page 298 - Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust: And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives!
Page 149 - Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised: Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn ; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page 252 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Page 104 - Make me free! how can I free any more? Dem da nonsense people, and what dem want take me from Miss Alice for? ... I wonder if I been sick and couldn't do any ting, ef dem would nuss me and take care o' me liken Miss Alice ... I tink dem crazy 'bout free.
Page 291 - BO as to be a menace to travelers thereon, and said Lutes thereupon sought by the testimony adduced in his behalf to fix the place of the accident at a point distant nearly a quarter of a mile from the railroad, and near a temporary bridge constructed over a ditch to enable persons to drive from the adjoining fields onto the highway.
Page 310 - According to most defenders of slavery, the majority of slaveholders were not only aware of their obligations to slaves; the best also sought " 'improvement in their modes of living — improvement in our systems of government — above all, [improvement] by earnest and persevering efforts to communicate to them sound moral and religious instruction.