Ballou's Monthly Magazine, Volúmenes29-30Thomes & Talbot, 1869 |
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... Edith Yorke's haughty , pathetic eyes , for the sake of getting her house and lands . Each and all made offers , and each and all were refused . Though the house was decaying , though the grounds were going to waste , though it took ...
... Edith Yorke's haughty , pathetic eyes , for the sake of getting her house and lands . Each and all made offers , and each and all were refused . Though the house was decaying , though the grounds were going to waste , though it took ...
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... Edith's father , and at her death her husband shut himself up from the world , and lived alone with his child , and the portrait of the wife whom he had adored with an almost insane fondness . His fortunes were already on the wane , and ...
... Edith's father , and at her death her husband shut himself up from the world , and lived alone with his child , and the portrait of the wife whom he had adored with an almost insane fondness . His fortunes were already on the wane , and ...
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... Edith shrank from the woman who had been on such cool terms with her lost mother . No friendliness , therefore , came of this visit , except that the old lady met and liked her young relative , and Edith promised that if ever she should ...
... Edith shrank from the woman who had been on such cool terms with her lost mother . No friendliness , therefore , came of this visit , except that the old lady met and liked her young relative , and Edith promised that if ever she should ...
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... Edith would as little have thought of refusing to share the last dollar with her as with each other . These three formed the household , and were all that was left of the once stately establishment of the house of Yorke . CHAPTER II ...
... Edith would as little have thought of refusing to share the last dollar with her as with each other . These three formed the household , and were all that was left of the once stately establishment of the house of Yorke . CHAPTER II ...
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... Edith's brother took it without hesitation , and placed it for her , acknowledging the courtesy with an air that seemed to say , that it was only their due . The lieutenant - governor might , under different circumstances , have thought ...
... Edith's brother took it without hesitation , and placed it for her , acknowledging the courtesy with an air that seemed to say , that it was only their due . The lieutenant - governor might , under different circumstances , have thought ...
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Página 318 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant : meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake. That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.
Página 10 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Página 318 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Página 10 - Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him.
Página 582 - A quarter of an hour probably elapsed before I again dared to make the experiment, and then I found it at rest. I determined to lose no time, fearing that I might have lain then already too long, and that the bell for evening service would catch me. This dread stimulated me, and I slipped out with the utmost rapidity, and arose. I stood, I suppose, for a minute, looking with silly wonder on the place of my imprisonment...
Página 582 - ... stood, I suppose, for a minute, looking with silly wonder on the place of my imprisonment, penetrated with joy at escaping, but then rushed down the stony and irregular stair with the velocity of lightning, and arrived in the bell-ringer's room.
Página 581 - ... of the porch, and even broken into the marble tombstone of a bishop who slept beneath. This was my first terror, but the ringing had not continued a minute, before a more awful and immediate dread came on me. The deafening sound of the bell smote into my ears with a thunder which made me fear their drums would crack. — There was not a fibre of my body it did not thrill through : it entered my very soul ; thought and reflection were almost utterly banished ; I only retained the sensation of...
Página 581 - I looked upwards into it, it would appear sometimes to lengthen into indefinite extent, or to be twisted at the end into the spiral folds of the tail of a flying-dragon. Nor was the flaming breath, or fiery glance of that fabled animal, wanting to complete the picture. My eyes, inflamed, bloodshot, and glaring, invested the supposed monster with a full proportion of unholy light. It would be endless were I to merely hint at all the fancies that possessed my mind. Every object that was hideous and...
Página 581 - I was afraid the pulleys above would give way and let the bell plunge on me. At another time the possibility of the clapper being shot out in some sweep, and dashing through my body, as I had seen a ramrod glide through a door, flitted across my mind. The dread also, as I have already mentioned, of the crazy floor, tormented me; but these soon gave way to fears not more unfounded, but more visionary, and of course more tremendous.
Página 580 - I believe, practises it there at present except the servants of the church, and the melody has been much injured in consequence. Some fifty years ago, about twenty of us who dwelt In the vicinity of the cathedral...