The actor's wife, Band 1

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Samuel Tinsley & Company, 1880 - 286 Seiten
 

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Seite 215 - If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have wakened death ! And let the laboring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high ; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Seite 123 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white.
Seite 158 - Ninora-Tal. which is about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth when full, but less than half of that width in the dry season.
Seite 236 - ... satin or silk decorated with a golden poodle. She was 'above all things happy', he said, 'in meeting once again Napoleon III, who made a conquest of her in the month of April when he was in London'. Canrobert met the Queen in the salon before dinner. She came up to him in the friendliest way: 'I am delighted to see you; I have heard so much about you that I must already look upon you as an old acquaintance'.
Seite 207 - It was the evening of the day before they were to leave Miranda Lodge, and father and daughter were sitting over their too frugal meal.
Seite 152 - She had finished her packing, when she heard a knock at her door. She opened it, and found herself face to face with Julius Doverook.
Seite 65 - Entering the house, he had found a letter waiting for him on the table in the hall.

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