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... Amy seldom left her , but generally sat by her side , on a low footstool , reading or working . Sometimes Mrs. Neville would lay her hand gently on the fair masses of hair , and Amy , whose heart was very sorrowful , would hold her head ...
... Amy seldom left her , but generally sat by her side , on a low footstool , reading or working . Sometimes Mrs. Neville would lay her hand gently on the fair masses of hair , and Amy , whose heart was very sorrowful , would hold her head ...
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... Amy would marry an Earl at the very least . Mrs. Neville never questioned , but looked more searchingly in Amy's face , laid her hand more caressingly those days on her head , and spoke more softly and lovingly , while Amy never said a ...
... Amy would marry an Earl at the very least . Mrs. Neville never questioned , but looked more searchingly in Amy's face , laid her hand more caressingly those days on her head , and spoke more softly and lovingly , while Amy never said a ...
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... Amy , " cried she , " here's the gentleman I saw yesterday , do come and look at him before he goes out of sight ; he'll turn down the elm tree walk in another moment . " But before Amy could have reached the window , had she been so ...
... Amy , " cried she , " here's the gentleman I saw yesterday , do come and look at him before he goes out of sight ; he'll turn down the elm tree walk in another moment . " But before Amy could have reached the window , had she been so ...
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... Amy , if she did not say she was glad to see him , did not rebuke him for coming , nor appear to look on his visit as an intrusion ; and soon he was quite at home with them all , and when Amy , who had been out to Hannah , to try and ...
... Amy , if she did not say she was glad to see him , did not rebuke him for coming , nor appear to look on his visit as an intrusion ; and soon he was quite at home with them all , and when Amy , who had been out to Hannah , to try and ...
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... Amy allowed that , although she did not feel quite at rest within herself , or satisfied at Robert Vavasour's having come to Ashleigh ; still she found herself later on in the evening laughing and chatting , in some- thing of the old ...
... Amy allowed that , although she did not feel quite at rest within herself , or satisfied at Robert Vavasour's having come to Ashleigh ; still she found herself later on in the evening laughing and chatting , in some- thing of the old ...
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Page 140 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music— summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 179 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 140 - But ever and anon of griefs subdued There comes a token like a Scorpion's sting, Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever...
Page 179 - I have done ; and howsoever My language may appear to you, it carries No other than my fair and just intent To your delights, without curb to their modest And noble freedom.