The Ogilvies: A NovelHarper & Brothers, 1871 - 421 pages |
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... Eleanor's long lashes were cast down , glittering with a joyful tear . But the husband kissed it away , and then ... Eleanor sat down to the piano and began to sing , but her tones faltered more than once ; and Philip tried to read aloud ...
... Eleanor's long lashes were cast down , glittering with a joyful tear . But the husband kissed it away , and then ... Eleanor sat down to the piano and began to sing , but her tones faltered more than once ; and Philip tried to read aloud ...
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... Eleanor following . " I wonder why it is that people whose books we read rarely come up to our expectations - at least , not exactly . I have heard this , and last night I found it out for myself . Why is it , Eleanor ? " Eleanor smiled ...
... Eleanor following . " I wonder why it is that people whose books we read rarely come up to our expectations - at least , not exactly . I have heard this , and last night I found it out for myself . Why is it , Eleanor ? " Eleanor smiled ...
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... Eleanor's room , and finding it empty , followed her into the garden . Eleanor sat quietly in the conservatory , her favourite place of study . A book lay on her lap , but she was hardly reading ; her eyes wandered as her thoughts were ...
... Eleanor's room , and finding it empty , followed her into the garden . Eleanor sat quietly in the conservatory , her favourite place of study . A book lay on her lap , but she was hardly reading ; her eyes wandered as her thoughts were ...
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... Eleanor could hardly help smiling . " Is Mr. Paul Lynedon , then , the only agreeable person in the world ? Well , I am not quite sure , but I believe that he was of the party . " Why did you not tell us so the other day ? " " I really ...
... Eleanor could hardly help smiling . " Is Mr. Paul Lynedon , then , the only agreeable person in the world ? Well , I am not quite sure , but I believe that he was of the party . " Why did you not tell us so the other day ? " " I really ...
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... Eleanor advanced in her usual composed man- ner to Mrs. Lancaster . 66 My dear Miss Ogilvie , I am delighted to see ... Eleanor's hand . 66 " " No , no ; I really beg pardon , " cried Mrs. Lancaster , as Katha- rine's shrinking ...
... Eleanor advanced in her usual composed man- ner to Mrs. Lancaster . 66 My dear Miss Ogilvie , I am delighted to see ... Eleanor's hand . 66 " " No , no ; I really beg pardon , " cried Mrs. Lancaster , as Katha- rine's shrinking ...
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Page 162 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Page 9 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 57 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells, And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass...
Page 77 - Ah ! fleeter far than fleetest storm or steed, Or the death they bear, The heart which tender thought clothes like a dove With the wings of care ; In the battle, in the darkness, in the need, Shall mine cling to thee, Nor claim one smile for all the comfort, love, It may bring to thee.
Page 132 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 102 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away.
Page 132 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 117 - I see thee old and formal, fitted to thy petty part, With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart. "They were dangerous guides the feelings — she herself was not exempt — Truly, she herself had suffer'd" — Perish in thy self-contempt ! Overlive it — lower yet — be happy!
Page 150 - s abus'd by some most villanous knave, Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow : — 0 heaven, that such companions thou'dst unfold, And put in every honest hand a whip To lash the rascals naked through the world Even from the east to the west ! lago.
Page 111 - tis an ordinance of God : so is every other contract ; God commands me to keep it when I have made it. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in JEsop were extremely wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well because they could not get out again.