A Noble Life, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1866 - 184 pages |
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... poor learned country minister had all his life longed to mix , but had never been able . Helen , who had scarcely penned a dozen letters in her life , wrote to him once only , in reply to one of his : telling him she was doing ...
... poor learned country minister had all his life longed to mix , but had never been able . Helen , who had scarcely penned a dozen letters in her life , wrote to him once only , in reply to one of his : telling him she was doing ...
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... poor father's heart one doubt that Helen's marriage was not as happy or as honourable as the minister evidently believed it to be . " He told us you seemed so well , " continued Mr. Cardross ; " that you were in the very whirl of ...
... poor father's heart one doubt that Helen's marriage was not as happy or as honourable as the minister evidently believed it to be . " He told us you seemed so well , " continued Mr. Cardross ; " that you were in the very whirl of ...
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... poor old father , who had so generously given up his only daughter for the one simple reason , ― suffi- cient reason for any righteous marriage- " Helen loved him , " that his new son- in - law was proved , by proof irresistible , to be ...
... poor old father , who had so generously given up his only daughter for the one simple reason , ― suffi- cient reason for any righteous marriage- " Helen loved him , " that his new son- in - law was proved , by proof irresistible , to be ...
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... poor , innocent letter dated - ever so long ago : - indeed the time when she had told her father she should write -the night before her marriage - day : - : " My dear Friend , - " I am very busy ; but have striven hard to find an hour ...
... poor , innocent letter dated - ever so long ago : - indeed the time when she had told her father she should write -the night before her marriage - day : - : " My dear Friend , - " I am very busy ; but have striven hard to find an hour ...
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... , honour , honesty . And he was Helen's husband Helen , - the true and the good ; the poor minister's daughter who had been brought up to think that it was better to starve upon porridge and salt than to owe any one a mar- 56 A Noble Life .
... , honour , honesty . And he was Helen's husband Helen , - the true and the good ; the poor minister's daughter who had been brought up to think that it was better to starve upon porridge and salt than to owe any one a mar- 56 A Noble Life .
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ADVENTURES amusing anecdote AUTHOR OF JOHN Baghdad Baillie Cochrane bairn beautiful biography BLACKETT'S NEW WORKS-Continued Campbell Captain Bruce Cardross Castle Ceramic Art chair character charming child clever coloured dear delight Diarbekir Earl of Cairnforth Earl's Edinburgh Edition Edward Irving elegantly bound entertaining eyes face father friends Gumri hand happy heart heir Helen Bruce Helen Cardross honour HURST AND BLACKETT'S Illustrations interesting J. M. W. TURNER JOHN HALIFAX Josiah Wedgwood JULIA KAVANAGH knew letter live Loch looked Lord Cairn Lord Cairnforth Lord EUSTACE CECIL Malcolm Manse MARLBOROUGH STREET marriage married MEMOIRS Menteith MESSRS Meteyard minister minister's Miss Helen Miss Meteyard mother narrative never noble once pleasant Portrait reader seemed sitting smile story strange talk taste tell thence things thought told travels Ussher volumes W. E. GLADSTONE watching wife wish woman young