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... miles had divided them , instead of so many yards . Strange fatality ! which might have altered the future lives of both . Yes , he had gone to Brampton the very morn- B 2 IT MAY BE TRUE . 3 them. If Mrs. Neville thought her daughter's ...
... miles had divided them , instead of so many yards . Strange fatality ! which might have altered the future lives of both . Yes , he had gone to Brampton the very morn- B 2 IT MAY BE TRUE . 3 them. If Mrs. Neville thought her daughter's ...
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... live like princesses . I am sure she would get well then . " This innocent remark of Sarah's was a home- thrust to Amy ; a death blow to her hopes , and roused h erat once . Should she sit so quietly and passively when her mother's life ...
... live like princesses . I am sure she would get well then . " This innocent remark of Sarah's was a home- thrust to Amy ; a death blow to her hopes , and roused h erat once . Should she sit so quietly and passively when her mother's life ...
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... live in her own and Vavasour's home , that home he had so often talked to her of , and where , in a few weeks , she would be roaming about at will as its mistress . The days crept on steadily and surely slowly ; to 70 IT MAY BE TRUE .
... live in her own and Vavasour's home , that home he had so often talked to her of , and where , in a few weeks , she would be roaming about at will as its mistress . The days crept on steadily and surely slowly ; to 70 IT MAY BE TRUE .
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... my hand , don't it burn like a live coal ? " " It do seem as though it were afire , " he re- plied . " Seem ! " cried Mrs. Marks . " Is that all the pity yer have in your heart for maybe your dying IT MAY BE TRUE . 129.
... my hand , don't it burn like a live coal ? " " It do seem as though it were afire , " he re- plied . " Seem ! " cried Mrs. Marks . " Is that all the pity yer have in your heart for maybe your dying IT MAY BE TRUE . 129.
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... he , when they were fairly on their way . " That's more nor I can tell , Sir . She's all over like a live coal , and ' ud drink a bucket full if ye'd give it her . " " Has she taken the medicine regularly ? " This 132 IT MAY BE TRUE .
... he , when they were fairly on their way . " That's more nor I can tell , Sir . She's all over like a live coal , and ' ud drink a bucket full if ye'd give it her . " " Has she taken the medicine regularly ? " This 132 IT MAY BE TRUE .
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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.