A Modern Mephistopheles;: And, A Whisper in the Dark,Little, Brown,, 1905 - 350 oldal |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 93 találatból.
9. oldal
... offer . The dim light and shrouding cloak showed nothing but a pale , keer . face , with dark pene- trating eyes , and a thin hand , holding a paper on + which the youth recognized the familiar words , " Felix A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES . 9.
... offer . The dim light and shrouding cloak showed nothing but a pale , keer . face , with dark pene- trating eyes , and a thin hand , holding a paper on + which the youth recognized the familiar words , " Felix A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES . 9.
10. oldal
... Felix Canaris . " " My name ! You came to help me ? What good angel sent you , sir ? " he exclaimed , with a thrill of hope , -for in the voice , the eye , the hand that held the card with such tenacious touch , he saw and felt the ...
... Felix Canaris . " " My name ! You came to help me ? What good angel sent you , sir ? " he exclaimed , with a thrill of hope , -for in the voice , the eye , the hand that held the card with such tenacious touch , he saw and felt the ...
15. oldal
... Why not play fate , and finish what I have begun ? " A pause fell , more momentous than either dreamed ; then it was abruptly broken . " Felix , the time is up . " " It is , sir . Am I to go A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES . 15.
... Why not play fate , and finish what I have begun ? " A pause fell , more momentous than either dreamed ; then it was abruptly broken . " Felix , the time is up . " " It is , sir . Am I to go A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES . 15.
28. oldal
... Felix ? " 66 Yes , oh yes ! Tell me more , please . I have led such a lonely life , that human beings are like wonder - books to me , and I am never tired of reading them . " Gladys looked with a rapt expression into the face upturned ...
... Felix ? " 66 Yes , oh yes ! Tell me more , please . I have led such a lonely life , that human beings are like wonder - books to me , and I am never tired of reading them . " Gladys looked with a rapt expression into the face upturned ...
36. oldal
... Felix than the Providence which left him to die of destitution and despair ? " " Perhaps not . The love of power is strong in men like you , and grows by what it feeds on If I am not mistaken , this whim of a 36 A MODERn mephISTOPHELES .
... Felix than the Providence which left him to die of destitution and despair ? " " Perhaps not . The love of power is strong in men like you , and grows by what it feeds on If I am not mistaken , this whim of a 36 A MODERn mephISTOPHELES .
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Alcibiades amuse answered asked atone beautiful betrayed better Canaris charm cousin creature cried dare dark door dreams ejaculated enjoy excitement eyes face fancy father Faust fear feel Felix felt forget gave girl give glad Gladys glance Guinevere hair hand Hannah happy heard heart heliotrope Helwyze Helwyze saw hope hour human voice Jasper Karnac keep knew late laugh leaned leave lips listened looked madame marriage MEPHISTOPHELES never night nosegay Olivia pain pale passion paused pity pleasant pleasure poor Pretty thing quiet remember rose satis Scarlet Letter seemed silent sing sleep smile soon soul spirit spoke stood sudden sweet Sybil tell tender thing thought tone took touched turned uncle uncle's uncon unmis uttered voice voice broke waiting watch weary whispered wild wheel woman wonder words wyze young youth
Népszerű szakaszok
194. oldal - Late, late, so late ! but we can enter still. Too late ! too late I ye cannot enter now. No light had we : for that we do repent, And, learning this, the bridegroom will relent. Too late ! too late ! ye cannot enter now. No light, so late
189. oldal - gray and silver damask, singing, in " the sweet voice of a bird," — ''Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud; Turn thy wild wheel through sunshine, storm, and cloud ; Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate. * Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile
194. oldal - Too late ! too late 1 ye cannot enter now. Have we not heard the bridegroom is so sweet ? O let us in, tho' late, to kiss his feet ! ^ No, no, too late 1 ye cannot enter now.
190. oldal - A twist of gold was round her hair ; A robe of samite without price, that more exprest Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, In color like the satin-shining palm On sallows in the windy gleams of March.
197. oldal - to make us loveless clay 1 know not which is sweeter, no, not I. I fain would follow love, if that could be ; I needs must follow death, who calls for me : Call and I follow, I follow ! let me die
194. oldal - Gladys, in white wimple and close-folded gown of gray, sat on a stool beside the " one low light/' humming softly, her rosary fallen at her feet,— "the Queen looked up, and said, ' O maiden, if indeed you list to sing Sing, and unbind my heart, that I may weep. Whereat full willingly sang the little maid, Late, late, so late ! and dark the night and chill I Late, late, so late
194. oldal - dark and chill the night ! O let us in, that we may find the light
133. oldal - so, say that no faith —not even the Christian — has exercised so powerful an influence on the diminution of crime as the old, simple doctrine of.
307. oldal - a shy caress, feeling both penitent and pitiful. "Dear Guy, forgive me if I pained you. I'ma thoughtless creature, but I'm not malicious, and a word will restrain me if kindly spoken. My home is always yours, and when my fortune is mine you shall never want, if you are not too proud to accept
329. oldal - I sprang up, took one step and remained transfixed with dismay, for the room was not my own ! Utterly unfamiliar was every object on which my eyes fell. The place was small, plainly furnished, and close, as if long unused. My trunks stood against the wall, my clothes lay on a chair, and on the