All for the Best: A Story of Quiet LifeHurst and Blackett, 1861 |
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... sure of one thing , that if everybody in the world treated their wives as well as he had always made a point of treating his , there wouldn't be half so many unhappy homes as one hears of in these days , judging from newspapers and ...
... sure of one thing , that if everybody in the world treated their wives as well as he had always made a point of treating his , there wouldn't be half so many unhappy homes as one hears of in these days , judging from newspapers and ...
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... sure one of the young ladies had run away and got married , or something of that sort . Why , that's no news at all ; " and Rachel set to at her seam again with a disappointed expression of countenance . 66 Rachel , " said Mrs. Sharrup ...
... sure one of the young ladies had run away and got married , or something of that sort . Why , that's no news at all ; " and Rachel set to at her seam again with a disappointed expression of countenance . 66 Rachel , " said Mrs. Sharrup ...
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... young ladies into black silk , edged with puffings . She was always a woman that thought a wonderful great deal about her children , and she'll be sure to take on about it . " " Well , Miss Smart , for my part I 18 ALL FOR THE BEST .
... young ladies into black silk , edged with puffings . She was always a woman that thought a wonderful great deal about her children , and she'll be sure to take on about it . " " Well , Miss Smart , for my part I 18 ALL FOR THE BEST .
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... sure he would be an hour late such a day as this , let alone the snow . I was crossing the hall when he rung the bell . She bolted out of the kitchen , and nearly knocked me down in her haste to get to the door first ; then she darted ...
... sure he would be an hour late such a day as this , let alone the snow . I was crossing the hall when he rung the bell . She bolted out of the kitchen , and nearly knocked me down in her haste to get to the door first ; then she darted ...
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... sure the door - bell wouldn't ring until ten o'clock when the milkman came . So I lay very still and comfortable , thinking what I should have for dinner . " " And what did you fix upon , Miss Gabbatis ? " said Mabel , still adding ...
... sure the door - bell wouldn't ring until ten o'clock when the milkman came . So I lay very still and comfortable , thinking what I should have for dinner . " " And what did you fix upon , Miss Gabbatis ? " said Mabel , still adding ...
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Seite 37 - He maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Seite 43 - Plummer, each better than the other — one at least from every gardener in the neighbourhood — besides all sorts of recommendations to go to Cheltenham, to Harrowgate, to Jericho for aught I know. Now if there is one thing I detest more than another, it is a watering-place, unless a very pleasant party be previously formed, when, as Tony Lumpkin says, ' a gentleman may be in a concatenation.
Seite 262 - He had had in his youth a hard, in his age an easy life ; and if there was one thing he disliked more than another, it was taking trouble.
Seite 245 - ... neighborhoods, because they never go out nights, never mix in society, never have an idea beyond their own limits — a sort of " me and my wife " people, who are not remarkable for any thing except that they are models ; but Heaven forbid that their selfish pattern should be followed by living men. But this is not what I was going to say. When I came to Boston, some ten years since, I was in a severe corner. I had borrowed money enough to bring me here, but the last shilling was on the verge...
Seite 149 - I forget where, that there is a something which does not please us in the happiness of our friends.
Seite 135 - I have folded round me day after day, and month after month, and year after year, until it has come to be part of myself, very hard to be put off again — very hard.