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lady Avice (fict. name.) PREFACE . of I HAVE determined to give the world some my thoughts , some facts and incidents that either have , or might have fallen under my own observation . I do not suppose I shall succeed as well as many ...
lady Avice (fict. name.) PREFACE . of I HAVE determined to give the world some my thoughts , some facts and incidents that either have , or might have fallen under my own observation . I do not suppose I shall succeed as well as many ...
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lady Avice (fict. name.) LADY AVICE . CHAPTER I. Mir scheint es ist eine wundersame Welt . Mir scheint wir gleichen keinen anderen Engeln , keinen anderen Thieren , doch haben wir etwas von jeder dieser zwei Natüren . Mir scheint das ...
lady Avice (fict. name.) LADY AVICE . CHAPTER I. Mir scheint es ist eine wundersame Welt . Mir scheint wir gleichen keinen anderen Engeln , keinen anderen Thieren , doch haben wir etwas von jeder dieser zwei Natüren . Mir scheint das ...
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... white of her skin was flesh - white , neither the yellow hue of advancing age , nor the blue tint of advancing disease . Would you know , fair girls , how this was preserved ? No veal- cutlets , Sir - nor even rose - lotions at 4 LADY AVICE ...
... white of her skin was flesh - white , neither the yellow hue of advancing age , nor the blue tint of advancing disease . Would you know , fair girls , how this was preserved ? No veal- cutlets , Sir - nor even rose - lotions at 4 LADY AVICE ...
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lady Avice (fict. name.) the hint given by his friend , to colour and look foolish whenever Hortensia's languid eyes met his ; and she , seeing this , conceived that he was really smitten with her a thought that was balm to her heart ...
lady Avice (fict. name.) the hint given by his friend , to colour and look foolish whenever Hortensia's languid eyes met his ; and she , seeing this , conceived that he was really smitten with her a thought that was balm to her heart ...
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... women do ? Can you , men , believe that , after fifty years of heiress - ship and all its peculiar trials and cares , a woman's heart might respond to love's first call , and never think that a serpent might lurk under its roses LADY AVICE ...
... women do ? Can you , men , believe that , after fifty years of heiress - ship and all its peculiar trials and cares , a woman's heart might respond to love's first call , and never think that a serpent might lurk under its roses LADY AVICE ...
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Agnes Allan appeared arrived Ashill asked Avice Avice's beautiful believe better brought called cause Charamille child Colonel conversation dear deep desire Ethelred eyes face fact fair Fanny father fear feel Félicité felt followed gave girl give gone hand happy head hear heard heart Hervie Hervie Ashill hope interest kind knew Lady Lady Avice Lady Keffsdale leave less light lived looked Lord Alfred Macbrae Mademoiselle Eurilia Marion marriage married means meeting mind mother never night observed once party passed perhaps person poor pray present pretty received replied Roma seemed seen smile soon sorrow speak story Street suffering sure sweet Sylverton tears tell thank things thought told took true turned voice week whole wife wish young
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Page 152 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 63 - We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky: The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Page 75 - And the mother gave, in tears and pain, The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above. Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away.
Page 271 - O how plentiful is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee : and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even before the sons of men ! 22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men : thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues.
Page 189 - The Reaper said, and smiled ; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 249 - And, losing all pollution, mingles there In the wide world of waters. So is it With the great stream of things, if all were seen : Good the beginning, good the end shall be, And transitory evil only make The good end happier. Ages pass away, Thrones fall, and nations disappear, and worlds Grow old and go to wreck : the soul alone Endures, and what she chooseth for herself, The arbiter of her own destiny, That only shall be permanent.
Page 189 - Curved is the line of beauty, Straight is the line of duty ; Walk by the last, and thou shalt see The other ever follow thee.
Page 306 - END OF VOL. I. LONDON : Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.
Page 58 - ... that after the subsidence of the peritonitis, from which she was not free for many days, it was found requisite to continue the vaginal plugging for another week, when sufficient adhesion was formed to allow its discontinuance. After the operation her bowels were kept confined for as long as possible. At the end of three weeks she was able to sit up, and a week later was sent to the Convalescent Home at Stillorgan, whence she returned to her former occupation, and is now again employed at the...
Page 146 - What did he say he was going to do?" " He said he was going to town on business.