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... sure your visit has given Mamma " Mrs. Neville seems a great invalid . I do not wonder at your anxiety for her while absent . " As a stranger he had remarked the exhaustion and weariness , although to Amy her mother had seemed so much ...
... sure your visit has given Mamma " Mrs. Neville seems a great invalid . I do not wonder at your anxiety for her while absent . " As a stranger he had remarked the exhaustion and weariness , although to Amy her mother had seemed so much ...
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... her side . As it was , he knew not even of Robert Vavasour's presence at Ashleigh , as Amy , when she wrote to Julia and Anne , never mentioned it , feeling sure of a bantering letter in return ; as of IT MAY BE TRUE . 21.
... her side . As it was , he knew not even of Robert Vavasour's presence at Ashleigh , as Amy , when she wrote to Julia and Anne , never mentioned it , feeling sure of a bantering letter in return ; as of IT MAY BE TRUE . 21.
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Kate Wood. sure of a bantering letter in return ; as of course they would guess of his love for her , and imagine it was going to be a match , whether she denied it or no ; certainly they would never think of the true reason that had ...
Kate Wood. sure of a bantering letter in return ; as of course they would guess of his love for her , and imagine it was going to be a match , whether she denied it or no ; certainly they would never think of the true reason that had ...
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... sure she would get well there . Don't you think so ? " " She might , Sarah . But I think if change is to do her good , she will require a greater change than that . " " Further off still ? " asked the child . “ Where to , Amy ? " " I ...
... sure she would get well there . Don't you think so ? " " She might , Sarah . But I think if change is to do her good , she will require a greater change than that . " " Further off still ? " asked the child . “ Where to , Amy ? " " I ...
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... 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 herat once . Should she sit so quietly and passively when her mother's life was at stake ? Nurse and ...
... 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 herat once . Should she sit so quietly and passively when her mother's life was at stake ? Nurse and ...
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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.