The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... length , full of his own sad thoughts , he stopped , and leant over the gangway , his face buried on his arm . A kind hand , laid on his shoulder , soon roused him from his reverie . He started , and was rather surprised at finding it ...
... length , full of his own sad thoughts , he stopped , and leant over the gangway , his face buried on his arm . A kind hand , laid on his shoulder , soon roused him from his reverie . He started , and was rather surprised at finding it ...
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... length I disengaged myself from him , for I ought long ago to have been back on board ship , -and stammering something about " pleasure at having been of service , " & c . , I turned , with rather a heavy heart , to make my way back to ...
... length I disengaged myself from him , for I ought long ago to have been back on board ship , -and stammering something about " pleasure at having been of service , " & c . , I turned , with rather a heavy heart , to make my way back to ...
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... length , with an evident effort , he bade me follow him to his cabin . I did so with a trembling heart ; but when the door was shut behind me , I am mistaken if his pulse beat not three to one of mine . Well I know , at least , that ...
... length , with an evident effort , he bade me follow him to his cabin . I did so with a trembling heart ; but when the door was shut behind me , I am mistaken if his pulse beat not three to one of mine . Well I know , at least , that ...
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... length of our stay , I told you that it all depended on the good pleasure of our Captain . It seems now , that his good pleasure is that we should remain , for which I am not disposed to quarrel with him ; though you , pro- bably , Miss ...
... length of our stay , I told you that it all depended on the good pleasure of our Captain . It seems now , that his good pleasure is that we should remain , for which I am not disposed to quarrel with him ; though you , pro- bably , Miss ...
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... length , raising his head , he held out his hand to me , and said that I must forgive him , for he was a weak old man , shaken in mind and body ; that the thought of any change in the fate of his child was trying to him , but that I ...
... length , raising his head , he held out his hand to me , and said that I must forgive him , for he was a weak old man , shaken in mind and body ; that the thought of any change in the fate of his child was trying to him , but that I ...
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Page 329 - Blest power of sunshine ! — genial Day, What balm, what life is in thy ray ! To feel thee is such real bliss, That had the world no joy but this, To sit in sunshine calm and sweet, — It were a world too exquisite For man to leave it for the gloom, The deep, cold shadow of the tomb.
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