Edith Sydney. A TaleBurns, Oates, & Company, 1868 - 381 pages |
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... started , for she had fancied herself alone , and looking down she saw a child , perhaps five years old , kneeling on the ground with a rosary in his fingers . His eyes were fixed intently on a red streak in the sky ; they were those ...
... started , for she had fancied herself alone , and looking down she saw a child , perhaps five years old , kneeling on the ground with a rosary in his fingers . His eyes were fixed intently on a red streak in the sky ; they were those ...
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... started into her eyes , for it was long since she had received so spontaneous a mark of affection ; but , brushing them hastily away , she said gaily , " You have a fine day for your hunt . A merry ride and a safe return to you all ...
... started into her eyes , for it was long since she had received so spontaneous a mark of affection ; but , brushing them hastily away , she said gaily , " You have a fine day for your hunt . A merry ride and a safe return to you all ...
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... started up ; they were to leave Naples at four , and there were still several things not packed up . Her maid came in to help her . " Good gracious , Miss Sydney ! " she exclaimed ; " have you never been in bed all night ? you will be ...
... started up ; they were to leave Naples at four , and there were still several things not packed up . Her maid came in to help her . " Good gracious , Miss Sydney ! " she exclaimed ; " have you never been in bed all night ? you will be ...
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... started , as at some disagreeable disenchantment from a pleasant dream , and turn- ing away with a kind of sneer , went back to her hotel . 66 In the sitting - room she found her aunt and a gentleman , who was a perfect stranger to her ...
... started , as at some disagreeable disenchantment from a pleasant dream , and turn- ing away with a kind of sneer , went back to her hotel . 66 In the sitting - room she found her aunt and a gentleman , who was a perfect stranger to her ...
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... started . " Who spoke ? " she said aloud , but instantly regained her composure , and with a scornful smile said to herself : 66 Aye , that is the Christian doctrine , but have I not already seen that I believe it not ? What is it to me ...
... started . " Who spoke ? " she said aloud , but instantly regained her composure , and with a scornful smile said to herself : 66 Aye , that is the Christian doctrine , but have I not already seen that I believe it not ? What is it to me ...
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afraid Agnes's Anglican answer asked Miss Brooke astonishment aunt believe Bentick better Bruce calf calmly Captain Maynard Catholic certainly child Church of England Church of Rome Clare Hall Compline confession cousin Crowland dear Edith looked Edwyn Hamilton English Eugénie de Guérin exclaimed Edith eyes faith Father Joseph feeling Fernley gave gilt give grace hand hear heard heart Holy hope hour Jesuit knew Lady Sydney laughed living Mary mean mind Miss Lyle Miss Sydney morning morocco nature never pain Père Mérot perhaps person poor Poor Clare Portman Street pray prayers priest question quietly racter replied Agnes replied Edith Sacrament seemed Sir Charles smile Soeur Sœur Rosalie soul speak spoke Stanley started strong suddenly suppose sure tell Thank thing thought tion to-morrow tone truth turned Vincent of Paul voice waiting walk wish words دو
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Page 39 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls— the World.
Page 365 - ... to do their duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them.
Page 295 - WISH not, dear friends, my pain away, — Wish me a wise and thankful heart, With God, in all my griefs, to stay, Nor from his loved correction start. The dearest offering he can crave His portion in our souls to prove, What is it to the gift he gave.
Page 147 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 114 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 61 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 97 - Through the dim struggling crowd and weary strife, Brings kindred spirits nigh whom we would pray Might live with us, and by our death-bed stay. Do these, our chosen ones, sink down at last Into the common grave of visions past? Ah ! there are few men in the world can say They had a dream which they do not dream still ; Few fountains in the heart which cease to play, When those whose touch evoked them at their will Sit there no more : and I my dreams fulfil When to high Heaven my tongue still nightly...