Culverley Rise: A Tale1861 |
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abode affairs Agnes Alfred amongst apoplexy appeared asked Ballantine baronet beautiful believe Bennet Bolton brother Camille CAVENDISH SQUARE child comfort Culverley Rise daughter death desire doctor dream eyes face fancy father fear feel felt Flowers fortune future gentleman girl hand happy heard heart heir hope hour husband Keith knew Lady Cray Lady Wilsden late letter lived looked Lord Milburn marriage married means ment mind Miriam Miss Bell morning mother Munich nald nature neral never Newland Hall object pass pected perhaps person poor replied rich Riesberg Robert Cray scarcely scene seemed sight Sir Lyttleton Cray Sir Reginald Cray smile solicitor sorrow spirit stranger suppose sure thing Thornton thought tion tone truth Uncle Alfy uncon voice WELBECK STREET whilst wife wish woman words youth
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140. oldal - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
151. oldal - ... more fearful, sometimes, than the most violent of objurgations. That look of patient, heart-broken woe, those long-drawn sighs, were a reception that he dreaded, to say the truth, a great deal more than a direct attack, or any fault-finding to which he could have replied ; and so, on the whole, John made up his mind that the best thing he could do was to stay at home and rock the cradle of this fretful baby, whose wisdom-teeth were so hard to cut, and so long in coming. It was a pretty baby ;...
104. oldal - What would you say if I were to tell you that you had given yourself to a ruined man, a discarded son, a beggar without a shilling?
53. oldal - Nothing more was said on the subject, but it did not pass from the mind of Mr. Hickman. He had taken the lad a few months before on trial, and it was understood that if he gave satisfaction he was to be put on wages after six months. " The boy is faithful, intelligent, and active,
24. oldal - ... so high that his toes can barely touch the ground. While he is suspended in this manner, two unfeeling wretches, as executioners, stand, the one on his right hand, and the other on his left ; each having a whip in his hand, with which they alternately lash him, till he is, in a manner hardly to be conceived, cut from head to foot. Such are the barbarities and cruelties, which those devils in human form, the proprietors and managers of slaves in the Dutch settlements, commit. Execrable monsters...
128. oldal - ... great solicitude lest General Wilkinson's conduct and Burr's situation might lead to occurrences which Colonel Burr would deprecate, and which involuntarily would put him in the wrong. "I therefore requested an interview with the president of the United States for two decided objects. 1st, To remove from his mind the false impressions he had received with regard to treason. 2d, To endeavour to convince him that the interests of the United States would be best consulted by going to war with Spain,...