The Woman in WhiteT. Nelson & Sons, 1861 - 572 páginas |
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... feel grateful for the prospect that awaited me at my starting in life . The quiet twilight was still trembling on the topmost ridges of the heath ; and the view of London below me had sunk into a black gulf in the shadow of the cloudy ...
... feel grateful for the prospect that awaited me at my starting in life . The quiet twilight was still trembling on the topmost ridges of the heath ; and the view of London below me had sunk into a black gulf in the shadow of the cloudy ...
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... feeling in his composition . Though I could not conquer my own unaccountable perversity , I had at least virtue enough to be heartily ashamed of it , and to end the discussion pleasantly by giving way and promising to do all that was ...
... feeling in his composition . Though I could not conquer my own unaccountable perversity , I had at least virtue enough to be heartily ashamed of it , and to end the discussion pleasantly by giving way and promising to do all that was ...
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... feel a sensation oddly akin to the helpless discomfort familiar to us all in sleep , when we recognize yet can not reconcile the anomalies and contradictions of a dream . " Mr. Hartright ? " said the lady , interroga- tively ; her dark ...
... feel a sensation oddly akin to the helpless discomfort familiar to us all in sleep , when we recognize yet can not reconcile the anomalies and contradictions of a dream . " Mr. Hartright ? " said the lady , interroga- tively ; her dark ...
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... feeling about the social position of an artist in this house . So much of my early life has been passed abroad that I have quite cast my insu- lar skin in that respect . I wish I could say the same of the gentry - detestable word , but ...
... feeling about the social position of an artist in this house . So much of my early life has been passed abroad that I have quite cast my insu- lar skin in that respect . I wish I could say the same of the gentry - detestable word , but ...
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... feel and which the re- sources of expression can realize . The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls . Then ...
... feel and which the re- sources of expression can realize . The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls . Then ...
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Página 15 - ... woman alive is beauty incomplete. To see such a face as this set on shoulders that a sculptor would have longed to model — to be charmed by the modest graces of action through which the symmetrical limbs betrayed their beauty when they moved, and then to be almost repelled by the masculine form and masculine look of the features in which the...
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Página 10 - I had. now arrived at that particular point of my walk where four roads met — the road to Hampstead, along which I had returned; the road to Finchley; the road to West End; and the road back to London. I had mechanically turned in this latter direction, and was strolling along the lonely high-road — idly wondering, I remember, what the Cumberland young ladies would look like — when, in one moment, every 2— Vol.
Página 93 - He flatters my vanity, by talking to me as seriously and sensibly as if I was a man. Yes! I can find him out when I am away from him; I know he flatters my vanity, when I think of him up here, in my own room — and yet, when I go downstairs, and get into his company again, he will blind me again, and I shall be flattered again, just as if I had never found him out at all! He can manage me, as he manages his wife and Laura, as he...
Página 10 - There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road — there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven — stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white...
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Página 230 - With what unerring and terrible directness the long chain of circumstances led down from the thoughtless wrong committed by the father to the heartless injury inflicted on the child! These thoughts came to me, and others with them, which drew my mind away to the little Cumberland churchyard where Anne Catherick now lay buried. I thought of the bygone days when I had met her by Mrs. Fairlie's grave, and met her for the last time. I thought of her poor helpless hands beating on the tombstone, and her...