Episodes of Fiction, Or, Choice Stories from the Great Novelists, with Biographical Introductions: Numerous Original Illustrations by Eminent Artists Engraved on Wood by R. PatersonVirtue & Yorston, 1869 - 304 страници |
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... turning to me , " Come hither , child , " says she , " if thou hast a mind to anything I have , you shan't be hectored by him . The boy is a pretty boy , I assure you , " says she to another woman that was by this time come to her ...
... turning to me , " Come hither , child , " says she , " if thou hast a mind to anything I have , you shan't be hectored by him . The boy is a pretty boy , I assure you , " says she to another woman that was by this time come to her ...
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... turned to it with as much eagerness as the wives and daughters of honest citizens . As they swept gaily along in the gay avenues of Ranelagh , or the promenade of the Mall , they exhibited the volumes to each other , as a proof of their ...
... turned to it with as much eagerness as the wives and daughters of honest citizens . As they swept gaily along in the gay avenues of Ranelagh , or the promenade of the Mall , they exhibited the volumes to each other , as a proof of their ...
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... turning to me , " I have left nothing to these last incapacitating hours . Nothing either to say , or to do . I bless God , I have not ; if I had , how unhappy I should be . Can you , sir , remind me of anything necessary to be done or ...
... turning to me , " I have left nothing to these last incapacitating hours . Nothing either to say , or to do . I bless God , I have not ; if I had , how unhappy I should be . Can you , sir , remind me of anything necessary to be done or ...
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... turning her face to me , as soon as she saw me , " Oh ! Mr Belford , " cried she , with folded hands- " The dear lady " --a ... turned her eyes towards me , as if she called upon me by them to join in the helpless sorrow ; a fresh stream ...
... turning her face to me , as soon as she saw me , " Oh ! Mr Belford , " cried she , with folded hands- " The dear lady " --a ... turned her eyes towards me , as if she called upon me by them to join in the helpless sorrow ; a fresh stream ...
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... turning her head to the Colonel- “ comfort my cousin see ! -the blame - able kindness - he would not wish me to be happy -- so soon ! " Here she stopt , for two or three minutes , earnestly looking upon him : then resuming , " my ...
... turning her head to the Colonel- “ comfort my cousin see ! -the blame - able kindness - he would not wish me to be happy -- so soon ! " Here she stopt , for two or three minutes , earnestly looking upon him : then resuming , " my ...
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Страница 110 - said my uncle Toby firmly. ' ' A-well-o'-day, do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point, "the poor soul will die." " He shall not die, by G— ," cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Страница 105 - I was answered, an' please your honour, that he had no servant with him; that he had come to the inn with hired horses, which, upon finding himself unable to proceed (to join, I suppose, the regiment), he had dismissed the morning after he came. — If I get better, my dear, said he, as he gave his purse to his son to pay the man, — we can hire horses from hence.
Страница 109 - ... and falling down upon his knee, took the ring in his hand, and kissed it too ; then kissed his father, and sat down upon the bed and wept.
Страница 104 - I fear so, replied my uncle Toby; but I am not at rest in my mind, Trim, since the account the landlord has given me. I wish I had not known so much of this affair, — added my uncle Toby, — or that I had known more of it: How shall we manage it?
Страница 106 - I heard the poor gentleman say his prayers last night,' said the landlady, ' very devoutly, and with my own ears, or I could not have believed it.' ' Are sure of it ? ' replied the curate. ' A soldier, an' please your reverence,' said I, ' prays as often (of his own accord) as a parson ; and when he is fighting for his king, and for his own life, and for his honour, too, he has the most reason to pray to God, of any one in the whole world.' " " 'Twas well said of thee, Trim," said my Uncle Toby....
Страница 105 - I was hearing this account, continued the Corporal, when the youth came into the kitchen, to order the thin toast the landlord spoke of: — but I will do it for my father myself, said the youth.
Страница 111 - The blood and spirits of Le Fevre, which were waxing cold and slow within him, and were retreating to their last citadel, the heart rallied back...
Страница 6 - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters ; or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church, which appeared on the first of December, 1702.
Страница 105 - Poor youth ! said my uncle Toby — he has been bred up from an infant in the army, and the name of a soldier, Trim, sounded in his ears, like the name of a friend. I wish I had him here. — I never, in the longest march...
Страница 104 - It was not till my uncle Toby had knocked the ashes out of his third pipe that corporal Trim returned from the inn, and gave him the following account :