The Silence of Dean Maitland, Volume 1Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 349 pages |
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... figure traced clearly against the gray , gloomy sky . Some linnets fluttered out of the hedge beside her , one or two silent lárks sprang up from the turf of the downland sloping away from the gate , and some rooks sailed cawing ...
... figure traced clearly against the gray , gloomy sky . Some linnets fluttered out of the hedge beside her , one or two silent lárks sprang up from the turf of the downland sloping away from the gate , and some rooks sailed cawing ...
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... figure outlined clearly against the dark sky . Her dress was a bright blue , and her scarlet plaid shawl , fastened tightly about her shoulders , revealed and suggested , as only a shawl can , a full , supple form , indicative of youth ...
... figure outlined clearly against the dark sky . Her dress was a bright blue , and her scarlet plaid shawl , fastened tightly about her shoulders , revealed and suggested , as only a shawl can , a full , supple form , indicative of youth ...
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... figure of middle height yet commanding presence , clad in dark gray , with a round , black straw hat and a neat white necktie , the frequent costume of a country curate in those days , when the clerical garb had not reached so high a ...
... figure of middle height yet commanding presence , clad in dark gray , with a round , black straw hat and a neat white necktie , the frequent costume of a country curate in those days , when the clerical garb had not reached so high a ...
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... figure in the porch . " Did you hear me coming , Lilian ? " asked he , entering the house . " Your hearing must indeed be acute . " " Did we hear him , Mark Antony ? " echoed Lilian , addressing a magnificent black cat , with white ...
... figure in the porch . " Did you hear me coming , Lilian ? " asked he , entering the house . " Your hearing must indeed be acute . " " Did we hear him , Mark Antony ? " echoed Lilian , addressing a magnificent black cat , with white ...
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... figure , " commented Lilian , go- ing out into the hall and taking her hat and jacket . " Run on , Len- nie , and say I am just coming . Matter ? Oh , my dearest Marion , nothing ! Only that Ingram Swaynestone spoils his horses ' tem ...
... figure , " commented Lilian , go- ing out into the hall and taking her hat and jacket . " Run on , Len- nie , and say I am just coming . Matter ? Oh , my dearest Marion , nothing ! Only that Ingram Swaynestone spoils his horses ' tem ...
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Page 92 - The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from- Heaven Than when I was a boy.
Page 291 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 256 - The image of his Maker, hope to win by't? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues: be just and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's: then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell!
Page 101 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 235 - ... reached the steps, and, descending them, found to his dismay that the gate was locked. CHAPTER V. THERE is almost always some small but vitally important hitch in the best-laid human plans, and the hitch in Balfour's arrangement was that he forgot the nightly locking of the gate leading on to the bastion. He had approached the tree from the other side, passing the sentries, being challenged by them, and giving the word in reply. Everard knew the bastion, and had had many a pleasant stroll there...
Page 79 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 203 - Maxwelton braes are bonnie Where early fa's the dew, And it's there that Annie Laurie Gie'd me her promise true— Gie'd me her promise true, Which ne'er forgot will be; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doune and dee.
Page 337 - Then he took from his pocket a piece of folded paper, which he held in his left hand, as if it were some talisman, and found strength to begin. CHAPTER IX. As he opened his lips, a vision of the little church at Malbourne rushed swiftly before his mental gaze. He saw the familiar faces clustered about the heavy gray pillars, and the reverend figure of his father in the ancient pulpit, and all the holy counsels uttered in that father's beloved voice came upon him in one moment; but he did not know...
Page 333 - O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!"—words so nobly simple in their unutterable sorrow.
Page 251 - I was a stranger, and ye took me in ; naked, and ye clothed me ; sick and in prison and ye visited me...