"Stray Steps"Glens Falls Publishing Company, 1920 - 200 pages |
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Page 40
... apartments above . The change brought about a few hours later by a perfectly tame , mild mannered , quiet man , seemingly resembled the havoc of a shrapnel attack . The crumpled debris of a half dozen or more evening newspapers ...
... apartments above . The change brought about a few hours later by a perfectly tame , mild mannered , quiet man , seemingly resembled the havoc of a shrapnel attack . The crumpled debris of a half dozen or more evening newspapers ...
Page 46
... apartments to pre- pare for the evening meal . Norma was as supreme at the head of the table as in other details of the home management . Orson , like a colossus in stature ; with great , intellectual head up- on massive shoulders ...
... apartments to pre- pare for the evening meal . Norma was as supreme at the head of the table as in other details of the home management . Orson , like a colossus in stature ; with great , intellectual head up- on massive shoulders ...
Page 72
... apartment every night in the week for months , only partially resting his body and over taxed mind . The pace that kills was leaving its unmistakable marks upon his once fresh , wholesome face . Ephraim realized the enervation that ...
... apartment every night in the week for months , only partially resting his body and over taxed mind . The pace that kills was leaving its unmistakable marks upon his once fresh , wholesome face . Ephraim realized the enervation that ...
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... apartment engaged for the clandestine meeting , the last pair to be included when they came face to face were father and daughter . The scene that followed , as described by Dottie , con- veyed most abject distress and anguish to ...
... apartment engaged for the clandestine meeting , the last pair to be included when they came face to face were father and daughter . The scene that followed , as described by Dottie , con- veyed most abject distress and anguish to ...
Page 120
... apartment at Cherries . In taking his departure he expressed the extreme pleasure he had enjoyed as their escort . Then they went to the draw- ing room . Naturally there was a silence for a time . between Aunt and Niece . Then the ...
... apartment at Cherries . In taking his departure he expressed the extreme pleasure he had enjoyed as their escort . Then they went to the draw- ing room . Naturally there was a silence for a time . between Aunt and Niece . Then the ...
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Page 32 - Be kind to each other, The night's coming on, When friend and when brother Perchance may be gone.
Page 26 - If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution — -not that — but when you disparage the concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself.
Page 29 - The glory of young men is their strength : and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
Page 13 - Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled ; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Page 22 - Rabbis down. But Mary, faithful to its lightest word, Kept in her heart the sayings she had heard, Till the dread morning rent the Temple's veil, And shuddering Earth confirmed the wondrous tale. Youth fades ; love droops ; the leaves of friendship fall . A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Page 182 - All false appearance as became a Queen. The worst of me is known, and I can say, That I am better than the fame I bear.
Page 21 - And knowledge to the studious sage, And pillow soft to head of age ; To thee dear schoolboy whom my lay Has cheated of his hour of play, Light task and merry holiday. To all, to each a fair good night And pleasing dreams and slumbers light. But were I to descant upon all the beauties of the British Poets, and give you a quotation from each illustrative of his view of the ideal character of woman, I might detain you till midnight : for...