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Page 49
... Rachel , dear , you should have stayed not a week only , but until Christmas . " " Now , Granny ! " - Granny was Rachel Scott's pet name for Miss Russel- " please don't begin to scold me when I'm so happy ; and besides , indeed , I have ...
... Rachel , dear , you should have stayed not a week only , but until Christmas . " " Now , Granny ! " - Granny was Rachel Scott's pet name for Miss Russel- " please don't begin to scold me when I'm so happy ; and besides , indeed , I have ...
Page 50
... Rachel , with a deep sigh of relief . " And what happened next ? " said Miss Russel , although she knew well enough what the sequel was , and read the hope which had prompted Rachel to put on the white dress and the French grey gloves ...
... Rachel , with a deep sigh of relief . " And what happened next ? " said Miss Russel , although she knew well enough what the sequel was , and read the hope which had prompted Rachel to put on the white dress and the French grey gloves ...
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... Rachel ! She felt suddenly quenched , and vaguely uneasy that she had done something wrong . She was very young ... Rachel's thoughts by its light , hastened to reassure the girl . " Do not look as if I had said something cross , dear ...
... Rachel ! She felt suddenly quenched , and vaguely uneasy that she had done something wrong . She was very young ... Rachel's thoughts by its light , hastened to reassure the girl . " Do not look as if I had said something cross , dear ...
Page 52
... Rachel hurried on , and found two dogs rolling over each other , and a tall young man making fruitless efforts to catch one of the combatants by the tail . It was all over in a minute . The skye retired growling to the side of his ...
... Rachel hurried on , and found two dogs rolling over each other , and a tall young man making fruitless efforts to catch one of the combatants by the tail . It was all over in a minute . The skye retired growling to the side of his ...
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... Rachel's aunt . " I must ask you , " Miss Russel said at last , " if you are a son of Mr. Vaughan , of the Oaks , shire ? " " Yes , " replied Harry , " The Oaks ' is the name of my father's place . Do you know him ? " " I knew him years ...
... Rachel's aunt . " I must ask you , " Miss Russel said at last , " if you are a son of Mr. Vaughan , of the Oaks , shire ? " " Yes , " replied Harry , " The Oaks ' is the name of my father's place . Do you know him ? " " I knew him years ...
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Page 736 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 596 - Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Page 622 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion was all that he sought, and all that he gave.
Page 741 - No pity, no release, no respite ! Oh ! That thou wouldst make mine Enemy my judge, Even where he hangs, seared by my long revenge, On Caucasus ! He would not doom me thus. • Gentle and just and dreadless, is he not The Monarch of the World ? What then art thou ?— • No refuge ! no appeal ! — • Sink with me then ! We two will sink on the wide waves of ruin, Even as a vulture and a snake outspent Drop, twisted in inextricable fight, Into a shoreless sea.
Page 739 - Throughout this varied and eternal world Soul is the only element: the block That for uncounted ages has remained The moveless pillar of a mountain's weight Is active, living spirit. Every grain Is sentient both in unity and part, And the minutest atom comprehends A world of loves and hatreds...
Page 739 - Hold thou the good : define it well : For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
Page 527 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Page 579 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 215 - ... movemur enim nescio quo pacto locis ipsis, in quibus eorum quos diligimus aut admiramur adsunt vestigia.
Page 740 - Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance >° Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume ij An empire o'er the disentangled doom.