The Bridal EveT.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1864 - 428 pagini |
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Pagina 53
... Heaven ! by all her fears of hell ! if she would escape the heaviest curse that could blast a woman's life , now and forever , to come to me to - night , for I am dying ! ' " " Dying ! dying ! this cannot be so , THE 58 BRIDAL EVE .
... Heaven ! by all her fears of hell ! if she would escape the heaviest curse that could blast a woman's life , now and forever , to come to me to - night , for I am dying ! ' " " Dying ! dying ! this cannot be so , THE 58 BRIDAL EVE .
Pagina 56
... heaven ! how has this happened ? Ah , I see , she has had a long walk , and probably a long fast , and she looks . very delicate . I should have offered her refreshments . How very thoughtless of me not to have done so , " exclaimed ...
... heaven ! how has this happened ? Ah , I see , she has had a long walk , and probably a long fast , and she looks . very delicate . I should have offered her refreshments . How very thoughtless of me not to have done so , " exclaimed ...
Pagina 58
... Heaven ! " " Lady Etheridge , you know not what a day , an hour , may bring forth ! " spoke a sepulchral voice within the house . With a shudder of vague alarm , the baroness crossed the threshold , and entered the house , followed by ...
... Heaven ! " " Lady Etheridge , you know not what a day , an hour , may bring forth ! " spoke a sepulchral voice within the house . With a shudder of vague alarm , the baroness crossed the threshold , and entered the house , followed by ...
Pagina 61
... Heaven for that ! " " Except through yourself ! " " Except through myself ? Nurse , what do you mean ? How should evil come to Albert Hastings through me- through me , who would lay down my life and die for him , if I could so make him ...
... Heaven for that ! " " Except through yourself ! " " Except through myself ? Nurse , what do you mean ? How should evil come to Albert Hastings through me- through me , who would lay down my life and die for him , if I could so make him ...
Pagina 63
... Heaven knows that an angel might have been present at our interviews without offence to his heavenly purity , they were so innocent . Yet that did not prevent the tongue of calumny from maligning us . The injurious rumors never reached ...
... Heaven knows that an angel might have been present at our interviews without offence to his heavenly purity , they were so innocent . Yet that did not prevent the tongue of calumny from maligning us . The injurious rumors never reached ...
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Albert Hastings baron Baroness Etheridge baronet beautiful Beresleigh House bowed carriage Cassinove's Charles Dickens Charles Lever cloth Colonel Hastings cried daughter dear Laura dear Rose death Doctor Clark door drawing-room Duchess of Beresleigh Duke of Beresleigh duodecimo entered Etheridge of Swinburne exclaimed Rose eyes face Ferdinand Cassinove fortune gazed girl grace hand heart heaven heiress Henry Wood honor hope hour House of Lords husband inquired Lady Etheridge Lady Lester ladyship Laura Elmer leave Lester House looked Lord madam Miss Elmer morning mother murder never night noble pale paper cover poor present Princess of Wales prisoner Ravenscroft replied returned Rose Elmer royal highness Russel Ruth seat secret Sir Vincent Lester smile sorrow soul speak stood strange sweet Swinburne Castle tell thing thought Thugsen turned voice wife window woman words young baroness young duchess
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Pagina 186 - Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With...
Pagina 238 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pagina 2 - Marriage, $1 75 Eoline; or Magnolia Vale, 1 75 The Lost Daughter, 1 75 The Banished Son, 1 75 Helen and Arthur, 1 75 Linda; or, the Young Pilot of the Belle Creole, 1 75 Robert Oraham; the Sequel to " Linda; or Pilot of Belle Creole,"...
Pagina 144 - All this time Laura Elmer had stood with her stately form drawn up, and her large, dark, starry eyes, looking steadily down upon the fair inanity before her. " I am sure I cannot conceive why Sir Vincent should wish me to see you...
Pagina 3 - Witches of New York 1 75 Above are each in cloth, or each one is in pnper cover, at $1.50 each.
Pagina 10 - Rudge, Cloth, 3.00 Martin Chuzzlewit Cloth, 3.00 Old Curiosity Shop, Cloth, 3.00 Little Dorrit Cloth, 3.00 Dombey and Son, Cloth, 3.00 The following are each complete in one volume, and are reduced in price from $2.50 to $1.50 a volume. Great Expectations, Cloth, $1.50 | Dickens...
Pagina 139 - I saw hannounced in the drawing-room this hevening," was the acute criticism of the footman, James, as he returned to his post of service in the hall below. • Meanwhile, Laura Elmer was conducted by the housemaid to her apartment, next the school-room, in the third story. " My lady appointed this floor as the apartments of the young ladies and their governess, upon account of its quiet and fresh air, and I am directed to wait on you and them, ma'am. Is there anything I can bring you with your tea?"...
Pagina 145 - She was shown into the richly-furnished library, filled with the treasures of literature, science and art of two centuries of accumulation, and lighted by one tall, Gothic window of stained glass, that diffused " a dim, religious light " throughout the vast room. In a rich, antique chair, beside a writingtable, in the centre of the room, sat a tall, stout, very handsome man, aged about forty -five.
Pagina 145 - Eegular and well-chiselled features, dark grey eyes, heavy black eyebrows, a large, well-formed nose, and a full, handsome mouth, were all framed in by a luxuriant growth of shining black hair and whiskers. On seeing Miss Elmer, he arose with a stately courtesy, and placed a chair for her, saying, as he handed her to her seat : " I requested the favor of your company here, Miss Elmer, that I might consult with you upon the subject of your new pupils.
Pagina 3 - Series, cloth 1 50 Above are each in cloth, or each one is in paper cover, at $1.00 each. WILKIE COLLINS