A Noble Life, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1866 - 184 pages |
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Page 12
... chair - out- wardly capable of so little , yet endowed with both the power and will to do so much . Doing it so generously , too , and withal so delicately , that the most sensitive went away with their pride unwounded , and the most ...
... chair - out- wardly capable of so little , yet endowed with both the power and will to do so much . Doing it so generously , too , and withal so delicately , that the most sensitive went away with their pride unwounded , and the most ...
Page 22
... " It's no matter , -- no matter , " fecbly said the Earl , and allowed himself to be placed in an arm - chair by the fire in the housekeeper's room . There he sat passive . " Will I bring the minister ? " whis- pered 22 A Noble Life .
... " It's no matter , -- no matter , " fecbly said the Earl , and allowed himself to be placed in an arm - chair by the fire in the housekeeper's room . There he sat passive . " Will I bring the minister ? " whis- pered 22 A Noble Life .
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... chair - quite still ; as indeed he always was but now it was a deathlike quietness , without the least sign of that wonderful mobility of feature and cheerfulness of voice and manner which made people so soon grow used to his infirmity ...
... chair - quite still ; as indeed he always was but now it was a deathlike quietness , without the least sign of that wonderful mobility of feature and cheerfulness of voice and manner which made people so soon grow used to his infirmity ...
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... chair . He felt creeping over him that deadness to external things which makes pain itself seem comparatively almost sweet . Once he was heard to say , looking wistfully at Mrs. Campbell , who had - by . been telling him , with many ...
... chair . He felt creeping over him that deadness to external things which makes pain itself seem comparatively almost sweet . Once he was heard to say , looking wistfully at Mrs. Campbell , who had - by . been telling him , with many ...
Page 105
... chair , and settling his master therein . Then , as he himself afterwards told the story , though not till many years after , when nothing he told about that dear master's con- cerns could signify any he " gaed more , awa ' doun and ...
... chair , and settling his master therein . Then , as he himself afterwards told the story , though not till many years after , when nothing he told about that dear master's con- cerns could signify any he " gaed more , awa ' doun and ...
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