Claude Spencer, and Waddles1869 - 16 pages |
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... hope they are good children , " re- turned the one named Elizabeth , " for I detest tiresome children , I wish something better could have been thought of . " " Oh ! as for that , " replied Mrs. Wallis , " we must make them good . Of ...
... hope they are good children , " re- turned the one named Elizabeth , " for I detest tiresome children , I wish something better could have been thought of . " " Oh ! as for that , " replied Mrs. Wallis , " we must make them good . Of ...
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... hope . She was very earnest in preparing herself for the great change that awaited her . Her favourite novels were never asked for now , for although she had so often declared she could not live a week without them , she found they ...
... hope . She was very earnest in preparing herself for the great change that awaited her . Her favourite novels were never asked for now , for although she had so often declared she could not live a week without them , she found they ...
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... hope the same ; may we like him , try to bring others into the same road . May his God and Saviour be ours , our end like his peaceful and happy ; and when the dread messenger arrives to summon us away , may we be able to say with the ...
... hope the same ; may we like him , try to bring others into the same road . May his God and Saviour be ours , our end like his peaceful and happy ; and when the dread messenger arrives to summon us away , may we be able to say with the ...
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... with which to support her little family . Tom had to give up his cherished hope of going to college . They had left the pretty cottage where I had first became ac- quainted with them , and gone to live in lodgings 70 Waddles .
... with which to support her little family . Tom had to give up his cherished hope of going to college . They had left the pretty cottage where I had first became ac- quainted with them , and gone to live in lodgings 70 Waddles .
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... hope they will treat you well if they don't " -and Tom clenched his fist . Then gently stroking the bird , he continued , " But they will be kind to you . They must ; you are such a good old fellow . Oh ! Waddles , Waddles ! I cannot ...
... hope they will treat you well if they don't " -and Tom clenched his fist . Then gently stroking the bird , he continued , " But they will be kind to you . They must ; you are such a good old fellow . Oh ! Waddles , Waddles ! I cannot ...
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Page 3 - And he look'd at her and said, " Bring the dress and put it on her, That she wore when she was wed.
Page 50 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 47 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 23 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Page 10 - And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
Page 58 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 23 - Their graves are severed, far and wide, By mount, and stream, and sea. The same fond mother bent at night O'er each fair sleeping brow ; She had each folded flower in sight — Where are those dreamers now...
Page 60 - Gently the passing spirit fled, Sustained by grace divine ; Oh ! may such grace on me be shed, And make my end like thine.