The mistakes of a life, 1. kötet |
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17. oldal
... wait for that ; so , suppose , Henrietta dear , you were not to try to convince her against her will ; she says she knows it is all right , and by and bye she will find it pleasant . " Stuart and Edward both declared Grace was right ...
... wait for that ; so , suppose , Henrietta dear , you were not to try to convince her against her will ; she says she knows it is all right , and by and bye she will find it pleasant . " Stuart and Edward both declared Grace was right ...
61. oldal
... waiting on me . ” I could only kiss her , and strangle my sobs . " Oh , fie ! Henrietta , " said she laughingly , passing her poor thin fingers over my cheeks , " positively crying like a baby at leaving home . Come , come , it is no ...
... waiting on me . ” I could only kiss her , and strangle my sobs . " Oh , fie ! Henrietta , " said she laughingly , passing her poor thin fingers over my cheeks , " positively crying like a baby at leaving home . Come , come , it is no ...
71. oldal
... wait for me there , or to return and fetch me at any hour I should name . It must have been a great relief to the ladies to get me out of the house , consider- ing what a burden I was on their hands ; although I daresay they would not ...
... wait for me there , or to return and fetch me at any hour I should name . It must have been a great relief to the ladies to get me out of the house , consider- ing what a burden I was on their hands ; although I daresay they would not ...
92. oldal
... wait for me , and then delighted with my own thought- ful politeness on this occasion , I leisurely went though the duties of the toilet , musing , whilst my maid performed her work , on my new acquaintance , and the pleasures her so ...
... wait for me , and then delighted with my own thought- ful politeness on this occasion , I leisurely went though the duties of the toilet , musing , whilst my maid performed her work , on my new acquaintance , and the pleasures her so ...
93. oldal
... waited for me ; but I am not quite sure whether it occurred to me that I had in the least trespassed on their kind- ness . I ought to observe , by the way , that a mania for punctuality was one of Lady Suf- field's peculiar weaknesses ...
... waited for me ; but I am not quite sure whether it occurred to me that I had in the least trespassed on their kind- ness . I ought to observe , by the way , that a mania for punctuality was one of Lady Suf- field's peculiar weaknesses ...
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197. oldal - Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what had been, and might have been, And who was changed, and who was dead; And all that fills the hearts of friends, When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have separate ends, And never can be one again...
107. oldal - Why should I live ? Do I not know The life of woman is full of woe ? Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, And silent lips, and in the soul The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies M-' Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one ! URSULA.
133. oldal - Poor soul," whispered Lady Penelope to Tyrrel ; " we know what we are, we know not what we may be. — And now, Mr. Tyrrel, I have been your sibyl to guide you through this Elysium of ours, I think, in reward, I deserve a little confidence in return.
272. oldal - ... be also a duty to study to the best of our ability to understand in what their good consists, and how it is to be promoted. To represent therefore any branch of such study as inconsistent with Christianity is to make Christianity inconsistent with itself. He who should acknowledge himself bound to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and visit the sick and prisoners, would not be acting consistently with his profession, if he should through inattention or prejudice, or any other cause, sanction...
141. oldal - I fear they will continue to prefer respectable slavery, to despised independence ; and attribute these wise books to the pens of disappointed old maids, whose conduct would contradict their theories if the power were given them. I never hear women talk of their independence, without suspecting that they have escaped all temptation to surrender it.
140. oldal - I believe all the books now written to persuade women of their innate dignity, their mission, their rights, and their powers, will have but little influence on them. I fear they will continue to prefer respectable slavery, to despised independence ; and attribute these...