Life ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - 208 pages |
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Page 160
... Spain . You may see my western possessions any evening at sunset , when their spires and battlements flash against the horizon . It gives me a feeling of pardonable importance , as a proprietor , that they are visible , to my eyes at ...
... Spain . You may see my western possessions any evening at sunset , when their spires and battlements flash against the horizon . It gives me a feeling of pardonable importance , as a proprietor , that they are visible , to my eyes at ...
Page 162
... Spain . It is a country famously romantic , and my castles are all of perfect proportions , and appropriately set in the most picturesque situations . I have never been to Spain myself , but I have naturally conversed much with ...
... Spain . It is a country famously romantic , and my castles are all of perfect proportions , and appropriately set in the most picturesque situations . I have never been to Spain myself , but I have naturally conversed much with ...
Page 163
... Spain should be deputy book - keeper at nine hundred dollars a year ! " When I went home I ate my dinner silently , and after- wards sat for a long time upon the roof of the house , looking at my western property , and thinking of Tit ...
... Spain should be deputy book - keeper at nine hundred dollars a year ! " When I went home I ate my dinner silently , and after- wards sat for a long time upon the roof of the house , looking at my western property , and thinking of Tit ...
Page 165
... woman , descending the stately stairs of my castle in Spain , stepping out upon the lawn , and playing with those children . They bound away together down the garden ; but those voices linger , this MY CHÂTEAUX . 165.
... woman , descending the stately stairs of my castle in Spain , stepping out upon the lawn , and playing with those children . They bound away together down the garden ; but those voices linger , this MY CHÂTEAUX . 165.
Page 166
... Spain . I never ride horseback now at home ; but in Spain , when I think of it , I bound over all the fences in the country , bare - backed upon the wildest horses . Sermons I am apt to find a little soporific in this country ; but in ...
... Spain . I never ride horseback now at home ; but in Spain , when I think of it , I bound over all the fences in the country , bare - backed upon the wildest horses . Sermons I am apt to find a little soporific in this country ; but in ...
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