Household Friends for Every SeasonTicknor and Fields, 1864 - 327 pages |
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... letter from her father , an old family friend , five years back . I think he suspected how matters stood . I never spoke , of course , as she was quite a girl , and it would n't have been fair . I wrote to him several times , but letters ...
... letter from her father , an old family friend , five years back . I think he suspected how matters stood . I never spoke , of course , as she was quite a girl , and it would n't have been fair . I wrote to him several times , but letters ...
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... letters . " " And Nelly ? " " O , here she is , somewhere . Nelly , where are you ? We often talk of you and old times . " And now there was like to be another catastrophe calling for salts and cold water , as Herbert and Nelly met ...
... letters . " " And Nelly ? " " O , here she is , somewhere . Nelly , where are you ? We often talk of you and old times . " And now there was like to be another catastrophe calling for salts and cold water , as Herbert and Nelly met ...
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... letters , such as , COFFEE IS GOOD FOR MY BREAKFAST , " and pictures of useful things , with the well - thumbed story underneath ; a stove in the middle of the room ; a paper hanging up on the door with the names of the teachers ; and ...
... letters , such as , COFFEE IS GOOD FOR MY BREAKFAST , " and pictures of useful things , with the well - thumbed story underneath ; a stove in the middle of the room ; a paper hanging up on the door with the names of the teachers ; and ...
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... letters . A little industrious girl , in a lilac pinafore , let me in , with a courtesy . " May I come in and see the place ? " say I. " Please , yes , " says she ( another courtesy ) . " Please , what name ? please walk this way ...
... letters . A little industrious girl , in a lilac pinafore , let me in , with a courtesy . " May I come in and see the place ? " say I. " Please , yes , " says she ( another courtesy ) . " Please , what name ? please walk this way ...
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... letters from some of the boys who have left and prospered in life . One from a youth who has lately been elected alderman in some distant colony . She took us into a class - room and gave a lesson to some twenty little creatures , while ...
... letters from some of the boys who have left and prospered in life . One from a youth who has lately been elected alderman in some distant colony . She took us into a class - room and gave a lesson to some twenty little creatures , while ...
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Page 166 - will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet symphonies, Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret, and Rosalys.
Page 166 - And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames. And still she bowed herself and stooped Out of the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the fixed place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds.
Page 166 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 51 - I care not much for gold or land ; — Give me a mortgage here and there, — Some good bank-stock, — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share; — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names; — I would, perhaps, be Plenipo, — But only near St.
Page 166 - Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn. Herseemed she scarce had been a day One of God's choristers; The wonder was not yet quite gone From that still look of hers; Albeit, to them she left, her day Had counted as ten years.
Page 166 - I wish that he were come to me, For he will come,' she said. ' Have I not prayed in Heaven ? — on earth, Lord, Lord, has he not...
Page 166 - She gazed and listened and then said, Less sad of speech than mild — "All this is when he comes.
Page 52 - tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things; — One good-sized diamond in a pin, — Some, not so large, in rings, — A ruby, and a pearl, or so, Will do for me; — I laugh at show. My dame should dress in cheap attire; (Good, heavy silks are never dear;) — I own perhaps I might desire Some shawls of true Cashmere, — Some marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk.
Page 166 - Herself shall bring us, hand in hand, To Him round whom all souls Kneel, the clear-ranged unnumbered heads Bowed with their aureoles; And angels meeting us shall sing To their citherns and citoles.
Page 166 - The sun was gone now ; the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the gulf; and now She spoke through the still weather. Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together.