The Colonel's Christmas Dinner: And Other StoriesCharles King J. B. Lippincott Company, 1894 - 194 páginas |
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Adjutant aiguillettes Archer arms army asked bachelor beautiful better Briggs Brokenborough called Calverton Canter Captain Carrington Charlie child Christmas Clowser Cosette course court-martialed Cowan Dacre daughter dear Dick dinner Dolly door duty eyes face father fellow felt Forbes garrison girl hand happy Hartwell head heard heart heliotrope horses hour Jack Kiamush kiss knew Kurnel lady laughed Lieutenant light looked Mabel Madge Major McLaren Merryhew miles Miss Arden Miss Dolly Miss Frazier morning mother Nellie never night officer Orriker party poor prairie pretty quartermaster quarters regiment replied Robberts Santa Claus seemed seen smile soon stood story striker suddenly talk Tamba Tavistock tell thing thought tion told Tom Carrington took turned Union army voice wagon West Point wife wild turkey winter woman words young
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Página 136 - said Alice the nurse, " That all comes round so just and fair: Lord Ronald is heir of all your lands, And you are not the Lady Clare.
Página 12 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Página 161 - Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before.
Página 15 - And vain are the woodland spirits' charms; They are the imps that rule the wave. Yet trust thee in thy single might : If thy heart be pure and thy spirit right, Thou shalt win the warlock fight.
Página 11 - Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, — And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?
Página 16 - ... restless. It is only to poverty that the gods give content. You question me about love: you ask if I have ever bowed to a master, ever merged my life in another's: expect no answer on this from me. Circe herself could give no answer to the simplest maid, who, never having loved, asks, " What is love ? " In the history of the passions each human heart is a world in itself; its experience profits no others. In no two lives does love play the same part or bequeath the same record. I know not whether...
Página 16 - EVEN as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car Thrills with intenser radiance from afar,— So lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign grace When the drear soul desires thee. Of that face What shall be said, — which, like a governing star, Gathers and garners from all things that are Their silent penetrative loveliness...
Página 28 - My lips till then had only known The kiss of mother and of sister, But somehow, full upon her own Sweet, rosy, darling mouth, — I kissed her!