Memoirs of a Femme de Chambre, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1846 - 440 pages |
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... feel for the country of their birth and for the home of their youth , and , moreover , with a feel- ing akin to that which made Jacob exclaim , as he rose from his resting - place at Bethel , " This is the house of God , and the gate of ...
... feel for the country of their birth and for the home of their youth , and , moreover , with a feel- ing akin to that which made Jacob exclaim , as he rose from his resting - place at Bethel , " This is the house of God , and the gate of ...
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... feel hot to me , ' says she , and walks away to the window and opens it , for all that it was almost as cold and raw as to - night . But , now , and that's what I'm come about , Sir , she has taken to her bed , and is in a very bad way ...
... feel hot to me , ' says she , and walks away to the window and opens it , for all that it was almost as cold and raw as to - night . But , now , and that's what I'm come about , Sir , she has taken to her bed , and is in a very bad way ...
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... feel myself forsaken . And phantom forms of horror , And shapeless dreams of terror , And mocking tones of laughter ... feeling which Mr. Lacy experienced on reading the expression of a despair that contrasted so strikingly with the joy ...
... feel myself forsaken . And phantom forms of horror , And shapeless dreams of terror , And mocking tones of laughter ... feeling which Mr. Lacy experienced on reading the expression of a despair that contrasted so strikingly with the joy ...
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... feel myself pardoned ! Mr..Lacy , I have sometimes opened the Bible , and I have read in it words of pity , words of mercy , words of promise , and for a moment they seemed to bring comfort to my soul ; but the dark spirit within me ...
... feel myself pardoned ! Mr..Lacy , I have sometimes opened the Bible , and I have read in it words of pity , words of mercy , words of promise , and for a moment they seemed to bring comfort to my soul ; but the dark spirit within me ...
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... feeling with which I anticipated the arrival so eagerly looked forward to by the whole of my uncle's establishment ... feel , from those flat and unprofitable attempts to amuse them , which are so often made and so often fail . She ...
... feeling with which I anticipated the arrival so eagerly looked forward to by the whole of my uncle's establishment ... feel , from those flat and unprofitable attempts to amuse them , which are so often made and so often fail . She ...
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Page 59 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Page 264 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong to thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 55 - is wife (Not to mention the 'ousemaid an' cook), To come in an' 'ands up an' be still, An' honestly work for my bread, My livin' in that state of life To which it shall please God to call Me!
Page 166 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence ! Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in ! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin, — Ay, there, look grim as hell ! Des.
Page 14 - PEACE be to this house, and to all that dwell in it. IT When he cometh into the sick man's presence, he shall say, kneeling down, REMEMBER not, LORD, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers ; Spare us, good LORD, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood ; and be not angry with us for ever.
Page 88 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Page 30 - I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knocking within. MACB. Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 234 - If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
Page 182 - I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 259 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!