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Algy aunt Barnsford beauty Bill Sims brother carriage charming creature dear duchess dear Jane dear public diamonds duchess of Wigmore duke of Normanford duke of Wigmore English Exceptionatus eyes face fancy favour favourite feelings fellow Fido Firefly gentle Giorgione girl grace hand happiness heard heart honour Horsham husband inquired Lady Bingley Lady Ellen Howarth Lady Jane Lady Rosamel Lady Surcingle Lady Ulva Lewson look Lord Algernon Howarth Lord Hardenbrass Lord Hebberston Lord Surcingle Lord Ulva Lucy Mason Madame marchioness marriage Marseilles Mary de Medicis master Maurice mistress Montpellier morning mother nature never night noble Palazzo Strozzi Palermo party poor Jem poor little pretty prince princess Rattle rejoined render replied Rodomont Rome Roper royal Santa Rosalia scarcely seemed Semiton Sicily Sir Seymour Manners smile tears thing thought Ulva's valet Vernon Villa wife Wigmore Castle woman young دو وو
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Page 136 - ... him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment that they have preserved me from being scandalous, or remarkable on the defective side.
Page 168 - Anstruther covered her face with her hands, and, bursting into an agony of tears, answered,
Page 120 - France, — the land of milk and honey, of the olive and the vine, — during the summer months no one opens his eyes or mouth save on peril of ophthalmia and of eating the bread of grittiness for the remainder of the day.
Page 87 - Servants sitting down four times a day to luxurious meals, and at those sacred hours as unattackable by the claims of their masters as if at church, appeared to their serf-like experience worthy of the Pays de Cocagne, where the pheasants fly about ready roasted.
Page 94 - Byron, on the other hand, perpetuated in the monument at Newstead, his attachment to a dog whom he bewailed as his only friend.
Page 94 - Even the great Sir Walter was seldom seen, either in life or on canvas, unaccompanied by his dog.
Page 132 - Roman women of bis time could not refrain from chattering, even when offering up a sacrifice to the Goddess of Silence. But...
Page 59 - ... laid it quietly down again, and fell into a fit of musing. There are two reasons which induce...
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