All for the best, a story of quiet life, Band 3Hurst and Blackett, 1861 |
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... turned away from the window , and placed Miss Gabbatis a seat by the fire , and prepared to enter into conversation with her . " Awful times , Miss Nunly , these races , spe- cially when it rains and the roads get so muddy . And , if ...
... turned away from the window , and placed Miss Gabbatis a seat by the fire , and prepared to enter into conversation with her . " Awful times , Miss Nunly , these races , spe- cially when it rains and the roads get so muddy . And , if ...
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... home . Yet she has been thinking of it all along . It was only yesterday I was standing be- fore my wardrobe , turning over the drawer where I VOL . III . K - kept my childish relics , — Aunt Miriam's pocket- ALL FOR THE BEST . 129.
... home . Yet she has been thinking of it all along . It was only yesterday I was standing be- fore my wardrobe , turning over the drawer where I VOL . III . K - kept my childish relics , — Aunt Miriam's pocket- ALL FOR THE BEST . 129.
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... turned the conversation by asking if Miss Gabbatis had found the road lonely . Miss Gabbatis , glad enough to be once more on a safe track , plunged eagerly into the subject . " Not a bit of it , my dear . I mostly whistle when I'm ...
... turned the conversation by asking if Miss Gabbatis had found the road lonely . Miss Gabbatis , glad enough to be once more on a safe track , plunged eagerly into the subject . " Not a bit of it , my dear . I mostly whistle when I'm ...
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... turned upside down , like the Empress Eugenie's , and white scarves put on across , and fastened on the shoulder with a pink bow to match the dress . But do you know , Mrs. Harcourt , when I got down stairs L 4 ALL FOR THE BEST . 151 ...
... turned upside down , like the Empress Eugenie's , and white scarves put on across , and fastened on the shoulder with a pink bow to match the dress . But do you know , Mrs. Harcourt , when I got down stairs L 4 ALL FOR THE BEST . 151 ...
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... turned round the corner . Of course I couldn't scold her , for she'd as good a right to leave the preserves and enjoy the wedding as I had ; but it made my winesours look not quite so nice as they would have done had Miss Kaye been ...
... turned round the corner . Of course I couldn't scold her , for she'd as good a right to leave the preserves and enjoy the wedding as I had ; but it made my winesours look not quite so nice as they would have done had Miss Kaye been ...
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Seite 219 - Enough that blessings undeserved Have marked my erring track ; That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved, His chastening turned me back ; That more and more a providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time and sense Sweet with eternal good ; That...
Seite 3 - This is a very useful and amusing book. It is a good work, very well done. The authoress is quite equal in power and grace to Miss Strickland. She must have spent great time and labour in collecting the information, which she imparts in an easy and agreeable manner. It is difficult to lay down her book after having once begun it. This is owing partly to the interesting nature of the subject, partly to the skilful manner in which it hai been treated.
Seite 9 - ... accurate information as to the geology, the scenery, products, and resources of the regions explored, with notices of the religion, manners, and customs of the native tribes. The continual sporting adventures, and other remarkable occurrences, intermingled with the narrative of travel, make the book as interesting to read as a romance, as, indeed, a good book of travels ought always to be. The illustrations by Wolf are admirably designed, and most of them represent scenes as striking as any witnessed...
Seite 9 - Ngami was reached by a route that had been deemed impracticable, but which proves to be the shortest and the best. The work contains much scientific and accurate information...
Seite 3 - Valois. We refer our readers to the volumes themselves for the interesting details of the life and reign of Henry IH., his residence in Poland, his marriage with Louise de Lorraine, his cruelties, his hypocrisies, his penances, his assassination by the hands of the monk Jaques Clement, &c. Upon these points, as well as with reference to other persons who occupied a prominent position during this period, abundant information is afforded by Miss Freer; and the public will feel with us that a deep debt...
Seite 2 - HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF HENRY IV., KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE. From numerous Original Sources. By MISS FREER. Author of " The Lives of Marguerite d'Angouleme, Elizabeth de Valois, Henry III,
Seite 8 - Seveu years of wandering, thirty-nine thousand five hundred miles of moving to and fro in a wild and almost unknown country, should yield a book worth reading, and they do.
Seite 180 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death. ' 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Seite 219 - All as God wills, who wisely heeds To give or to withhold, And knoweth more of all my needs Than all my prayers have told.