Lady Wedderburn's Wish: A Tale of the Crimean War, Том 1

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Tinsley Brothers, 1870

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Страница 193 - ... reconstruction and fearful oppression upon the South of the North, through Federal bayonets, ceased, as we may well hope, forever. It was shortly after the last gun had sounded upon the battle field, when the memories on- both sides were filled with thoughts of sons who would never return, when the tragedy of the vanished hand and the sound of a voice that was still...
Страница 48 - Another race shall arise. The people are like the waves of ocean : like the leaves of woody Morven, they pass away in the rustling blast, and other leaves lift their green heads on high.
Страница 258 - ... Kenneth had recourse to the flask, and said, with a bitter laugh, " It was not I, at least, who kept you in ignorance of them." Sir Douglas felt the blood flush to his temples ; he strove to be calm. "No, Kenneth; it was not you. I cannot doubt, however, that they were kept from me for a good motive. We cannot undo the past ; what I have to think of is the future.
Страница 251 - Gwenny had begun to suspect or feel all that he had left untold, through " that silent method of communion which no crowd can prevent persons who know each other well from interchanging.
Страница 55 - Merse was soon left behind, and after a ride of three or four miles among heathy and grassy slopes, striped here and there with bright green where the track of the...
Страница 151 - If it disdained its brother : And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea ; What are all those kissings worth, If thou kiss not me...
Страница 151 - See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?

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