Agatha's Husband: A Novel, Volumen2Chapman and Hall, 1853 |
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... listened to the discussion a moment.- " My dear wife , since my father would not like it , you will not go , I know . " The tone was gentle , but Agatha - nay , any woman not gifted with wilful obstinacy -would as soon have thought of ...
... listened to the discussion a moment.- " My dear wife , since my father would not like it , you will not go , I know . " The tone was gentle , but Agatha - nay , any woman not gifted with wilful obstinacy -would as soon have thought of ...
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... listened with great reverence . But in all he did or said was the same be- nignant hauteur ; he seemed frozen up within a conglomerate of reserve and formal cour- tesy ; he walked , talked , looked perpe- tually as Nathanael Harper ...
... listened with great reverence . But in all he did or said was the same be- nignant hauteur ; he seemed frozen up within a conglomerate of reserve and formal cour- tesy ; he walked , talked , looked perpe- tually as Nathanael Harper ...
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... listened in deep thought ; then meeting her eyes , he coloured slightly , but quickly recovering him- self , said , in a low tone , " Some time to - day , Anne , I would like to have a little talk with you . " She assented with an ...
... listened in deep thought ; then meeting her eyes , he coloured slightly , but quickly recovering him- self , said , in a low tone , " Some time to - day , Anne , I would like to have a little talk with you . " She assented with an ...
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... listened - only half convinced , yet still she listened . • Anne Valery did the same , though she took no part in the argument . Only con- tinually her eyes wandered to Nathanael , less with smiling heart - warm affection than with the ...
... listened - only half convinced , yet still she listened . • Anne Valery did the same , though she took no part in the argument . Only con- tinually her eyes wandered to Nathanael , less with smiling heart - warm affection than with the ...
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... of our family and name . " Agatha , noticing the determined pride with which her father - in - law said this , won- dered that her husband listened with a lowered aspect and made no response . She thought it AGATHA'S HUSBAND . 127.
... of our family and name . " Agatha , noticing the determined pride with which her father - in - law said this , won- dered that her husband listened with a lowered aspect and made no response . She thought it AGATHA'S HUSBAND . 127.
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Anne Valery Anne's answered asked beautiful better blue veil boys Brian Harper BRIAN LOCKE brother child combe Holm cried daugh dear dinner door Dorset Dorsetshire drawing-room dress Dugdale's Duke Dugdale Elizabeth Elizabeth Harper Eulalie eyes face father feel felt Frederick Free-trade gentleman girl hand happy Harrie Harriet hear heard heart honour husband Kingcombe Holm knew lady laugh leaning listened little wife Locke Harper looked Major Harper Marmaduke married Mary minute Miss Harper Miss Valery Missus myste Nathanael ness never once paused perhaps pleasant poor post 8vo quiet remember rose round seemed silence sister sitting smile soul speak spoke Squire stood strange sure talk tell thanael thing Thornhurst thought to-day tone took Trenchard turned Uncle Brian Valery's voice walked Weymouth whispered wife wife's wish woman wonder words young
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Página 105 - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
Página 105 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints.
Página 52 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 102 - So faithful that she can see all his little faults — though she takes care no one else shall see them — yet would as soon think of loving him the less for these, as of ceasing to look up to heaven because there are a few clouds in the sky. So true and so fond, that she needs neither to vex him with her constancy nor burden him with her love, since both are self-existent, and entirely independent of anything he gives or takes away. Thus she will marry neither from liking, esteem, nor gratitude...
Página 101 - ... the other, and thus my beaux jours will pass away, and my Ideal Lover will not then think me worth his while. Shall I never be at rest with him to love and understand me, to tell every thought and feeling, in far different scenes from these — under canvas before Rangoon — anywhere in Nature ? " I would have every woman marry ; not merely liking a man well enough to accept him for a husband, as some of our mothers teach us, and so cause many unhappy marriages, but loving him so holily that,...