The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... turned , with rather a heavy heart , to make my way back to my boat . But that was not to be - quietly at least ; for the people , who had pressed closely around us , set up another deafening shout as soon as my intention was perceived ...
... turned , with rather a heavy heart , to make my way back to my boat . But that was not to be - quietly at least ; for the people , who had pressed closely around us , set up another deafening shout as soon as my intention was perceived ...
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... turned on me a look of ineffable triumph , and making me welcome , by a flourish of his hand , to the entry of the dark door and darker passage , he bounded again across the street , and by the time I had turned to thank him , he was ...
... turned on me a look of ineffable triumph , and making me welcome , by a flourish of his hand , to the entry of the dark door and darker passage , he bounded again across the street , and by the time I had turned to thank him , he was ...
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... turning to his daughter . She extended hers too , to show that they also had recovered all ill effects of the fire ... turned the scales quite to the side of smiles , and in an irresistible peal of laughter we found relief at last for ...
... turning to his daughter . She extended hers too , to show that they also had recovered all ill effects of the fire ... turned the scales quite to the side of smiles , and in an irresistible peal of laughter we found relief at last for ...
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... turned to the little table which stood by with her work , and gave me a letter - case of her own embroidery . She had been working it , she said , for her father , but would do him another . I took it , and it has never left me from ...
... turned to the little table which stood by with her work , and gave me a letter - case of her own embroidery . She had been working it , she said , for her father , but would do him another . I took it , and it has never left me from ...
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... turned with an affection I had never even imagined before ; and instead of the almost schoolboy letters I had been used to send her , I now poured forth volumes from out of the full store of my inward heart . I told her , of course ...
... turned with an affection I had never even imagined before ; and instead of the almost schoolboy letters I had been used to send her , I now poured forth volumes from out of the full store of my inward heart . I told her , of course ...
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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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