Life ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - 208 pages |
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... Prue , I go quietly up to the house - top , toward evening , and refresh myself with a distant prospect of my estates . It is as dear to me as that of Eton to the poet Gray ; and , if I sometimes wonder at such moments whether I shall ...
... Prue , I go quietly up to the house - top , toward evening , and refresh myself with a distant prospect of my estates . It is as dear to me as that of Eton to the poet Gray ; and , if I sometimes wonder at such moments whether I shall ...
Page 162
Rossiter Johnson. The placid Prue raises her eyes to mine with a reproof so delicate that it could not be trusted to words ; and , after a moment , she resumes her knitting , and I proceed . These are my western estates , but my finest ...
Rossiter Johnson. The placid Prue raises her eyes to mine with a reproof so delicate that it could not be trusted to words ; and , after a moment , she resumes her knitting , and I proceed . These are my western estates , but my finest ...
Page 163
... Prue sighed once as she sat at the window and saw Bourne , the millionnaire , the president of innumerable companies , and manager and director of all the charitable societies in town , going by with wrinkled brow and hurried step . I ...
... Prue sighed once as she sat at the window and saw Bourne , the millionnaire , the president of innumerable companies , and manager and director of all the charitable societies in town , going by with wrinkled brow and hurried step . I ...
Page 166
... Prue and I never go . Prue , indeed , is not quite sure it is moral ; but the theatres in my Spanish castles are of a prodigious splen- dor , and when I think of going there , Prue sits in a front box with me , a kind of royal box , the ...
... Prue and I never go . Prue , indeed , is not quite sure it is moral ; but the theatres in my Spanish castles are of a prodigious splen- dor , and when I think of going there , Prue sits in a front box with me , a kind of royal box , the ...
Page 168
... Prue for a day . Nay , have I not resigned them all forever , to live with that portrait's changing original ? I have often wondered how I should reach my castles . The desire of going comes over me very strongly some- times , and I ...
... Prue for a day . Nay , have I not resigned them all forever , to live with that portrait's changing original ? I have often wondered how I should reach my castles . The desire of going comes over me very strongly some- times , and I ...
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