Not for Him: the Story of a Forgotten HeroR. Carter & Brothers, 1883 - 224 pages |
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... trouble to these young maids . I am well as- sured you know grey heads cannot be well set on green shoulders . " " Lady , I am right unwilling to deny any bidding of yours . But I do desire of you to tell me if it be not enough to ...
... trouble to these young maids . I am well as- sured you know grey heads cannot be well set on green shoulders . " " Lady , I am right unwilling to deny any bidding of yours . But I do desire of you to tell me if it be not enough to ...
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... troubles was always patent to him . Yet he was a man of extremely sensitive feeling , as well as of shrewd and delicate perceptions . He lived a most uncomfortable life , and he was quite aware of it . The one person who should have ...
... troubles was always patent to him . Yet he was a man of extremely sensitive feeling , as well as of shrewd and delicate perceptions . He lived a most uncomfortable life , and he was quite aware of it . The one person who should have ...
Page 71
... trouble . What if it be his safety also ? He would like far better to go drifting down , amusing himself with the strange sights while daylight lasted ; but when night came , and the bridge to be passed , how then ? Is it not better to ...
... trouble . What if it be his safety also ? He would like far better to go drifting down , amusing himself with the strange sights while daylight lasted ; but when night came , and the bridge to be passed , how then ? Is it not better to ...
Page 118
... trouble be as sore in thy mind then as now . " Forty ! Should she ever be forty ? Clarice fondly hoped not . And would any lapse of years change the love which seemed to her interwoven with every fibre 118 NOT FOR HIM .
... trouble be as sore in thy mind then as now . " Forty ! Should she ever be forty ? Clarice fondly hoped not . And would any lapse of years change the love which seemed to her interwoven with every fibre 118 NOT FOR HIM .
Page 120
... have his little pleasures ? Thou canst do a bit on thine own . account . But mind thou , keep on the windward side o ' decency . ' Tis no good committing o ' mortal sin , and a deal o ' trouble to get shriven for 120 NOT FOR HIM .
... have his little pleasures ? Thou canst do a bit on thine own . account . But mind thou , keep on the windward side o ' decency . ' Tis no good committing o ' mortal sin , and a deal o ' trouble to get shriven for 120 NOT FOR HIM .
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