Love versus law; or, Marriage with a deceased wife's sister, Volume 3 |
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... FACTS & SPORTING FANCIES . BY HARRY HIEOVER , 6 Author of Stable Talk and Table Talk , ' ' The Pocket and the Stud , ' The Hunting Field , ' ' The Proper Condition for All Horses , ' & c . " This work will make a valuable and ...
... FACTS & SPORTING FANCIES . BY HARRY HIEOVER , 6 Author of Stable Talk and Table Talk , ' ' The Pocket and the Stud , ' The Hunting Field , ' ' The Proper Condition for All Horses , ' & c . " This work will make a valuable and ...
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... facts and would the law apply to those facts ? Now it was that the old man had to fall back upon his memory - now it was that he had to recal the bright visions of the past- now it was that he had to summon from the dark grave the fair ...
... facts and would the law apply to those facts ? Now it was that the old man had to fall back upon his memory - now it was that he had to recal the bright visions of the past- now it was that he had to summon from the dark grave the fair ...
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... fact , true ? or was the paragraph itself but one of the many inventions which a man , circumstanced as Mr. Belmont , at that time , was , is too apt to adopt for the purpose of secresy and con- cealment LOVE versus LAW . 15.
... fact , true ? or was the paragraph itself but one of the many inventions which a man , circumstanced as Mr. Belmont , at that time , was , is too apt to adopt for the purpose of secresy and con- cealment LOVE versus LAW . 15.
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... after day ; suspicions , light , and , in fact , wholly insignificant at first sight , shortly assumed an air of grave and serious importance . To his distracted and deformed imagination , every 26 LOVE versus LAW . CHAPTER III. ...
... after day ; suspicions , light , and , in fact , wholly insignificant at first sight , shortly assumed an air of grave and serious importance . To his distracted and deformed imagination , every 26 LOVE versus LAW . CHAPTER III. ...
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... fact , that proud of and pertinacious as we are about caste , many of the highest members of our aristocracy- ( who glory in tracing their descent - from whom , and how far back , heaven only knows , ) - may be seen , night after night ...
... fact , that proud of and pertinacious as we are about caste , many of the highest members of our aristocracy- ( who glory in tracing their descent - from whom , and how far back , heaven only knows , ) - may be seen , night after night ...
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affliction already bitter Blanche calm Captain Latour cerned Chalk Farm CHAPTER cheek child circumstances companion consola cottage countenance dark day after day deceased wife's sister deep despite door estates of Temple-Thorpe evidently excited exclaimed eyes fact father fear feelings fortune gaze genuity golden bowl green lane guilty hand happiness heart honest hopes hour interposed justice Lady Lindsay Lady Markington ladyship Lindsay's lips look Lord Lindsay madam Marian marriage Master Walter matter melancholy Miss Latour mother neighbour never night old Frank Heartwell old man's once passed Percival Andre Belmont perhaps poor primogeniture rambled regard Reginald replied Walter scarcely scene seemed seen Septimus Bigsby Sir Harry Hesketh smile spirit tell Temple Thorpe thought tion true truth utterly village hostelry Walter Belmont warm-hearted Welbeck Street wending Widow Belmont word young zounds
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Page 14 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 91 - They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing...
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Page 13 - I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane...
Page 117 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come : but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 94 - twas a famous victory. My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by. They burned his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly : So with his wife and child he fled ; Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 115 - Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd And in her looks ; which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her air inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Page 94 - twas all about,' Young Peterkin, he cries; And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting eyes; 'Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.