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Page 53
... face to face with Mr. Chip- worth Dartmouth , already known to the reader , in the other . Near by the half- recumbent millionnaire , at a little gem of a lady's writing - desk , sat Mr. Frank Ster- ling , the junior partner of the ...
... face to face with Mr. Chip- worth Dartmouth , already known to the reader , in the other . Near by the half- recumbent millionnaire , at a little gem of a lady's writing - desk , sat Mr. Frank Ster- ling , the junior partner of the ...
Page 75
... face , was beautiful , and something more ; yet nobody in the country round about the Grange had ever dreamed of calling her " a beauty . ” She was a tall , gracefully - formed girl , with that strong , untamable character of figure and ...
... face , was beautiful , and something more ; yet nobody in the country round about the Grange had ever dreamed of calling her " a beauty . ” She was a tall , gracefully - formed girl , with that strong , untamable character of figure and ...
Page 76
... face , strange or familiar ; but when they were lifted above the crowd , to the old carved ceiling of the hall , or dropped upon the beautiful hands which lay listlessly folded in her lap , the cold , blank look she had set against the ...
... face , strange or familiar ; but when they were lifted above the crowd , to the old carved ceiling of the hall , or dropped upon the beautiful hands which lay listlessly folded in her lap , the cold , blank look she had set against the ...
Page 78
... face which bespoke a character of singular originality and force , not want- ing either in womanly pride or tender- ness , -a face in which beauty itself was so subordinate to something higher , more ineffable , that one could scarcely ...
... face which bespoke a character of singular originality and force , not want- ing either in womanly pride or tender- ness , -a face in which beauty itself was so subordinate to something higher , more ineffable , that one could scarcely ...
Page 80
... face was that of the senti- mental hero of the last night's tragedy , but ennobled by the giow and dignity of genuine passion . In fancy , she sat on the balcony , communing with night and the stars , the newly - risen star of love ...
... face was that of the senti- mental hero of the last night's tragedy , but ennobled by the giow and dignity of genuine passion . In fancy , she sat on the balcony , communing with night and the stars , the newly - risen star of love ...
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