TreasureGeorge H. Doran Company, 1915 - 360 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 10
... knew nothing of ? " And when a woman ( or man for that matter ) looked pathetically helpless George Harvey was always touched . It was quite true that George Harvey might have made good terms for himself at that stage , but he com ...
... knew nothing of ? " And when a woman ( or man for that matter ) looked pathetically helpless George Harvey was always touched . It was quite true that George Harvey might have made good terms for himself at that stage , but he com ...
Σελίδα 19
... knew I should do for myself one of these days . I can't help that . I know what I am . Without boasting a bit , I can say fair as I'm a woman in a thousand , and I only hope , Mester Harvey , as Mrs. Harvey will do as well for you as I ...
... knew I should do for myself one of these days . I can't help that . I know what I am . Without boasting a bit , I can say fair as I'm a woman in a thousand , and I only hope , Mester Harvey , as Mrs. Harvey will do as well for you as I ...
Σελίδα 21
... knew he would never marry anybody without . Ganton people are not " stuck up . " They bother very little with birth , but they like to know who and what you are and how much you've got , which means that they can appreciate worth , like ...
... knew he would never marry anybody without . Ganton people are not " stuck up . " They bother very little with birth , but they like to know who and what you are and how much you've got , which means that they can appreciate worth , like ...
Σελίδα 25
... knew . They told him what he didn't know and he told them what they didn't know . And all the time his keen eye was roaming round and investigating . He was saying to himself : " Mrs. Hollins is a com- fortable sort and won't stint her ...
... knew . They told him what he didn't know and he told them what they didn't know . And all the time his keen eye was roaming round and investigating . He was saying to himself : " Mrs. Hollins is a com- fortable sort and won't stint her ...
Σελίδα 29
... knew what to do the day he spoke . She knew what to answer , of course : there was no dallying with that . She was so clear and honest with herself as with others there was no self - delusion nor hypocrisy in her . She said " Yes ...
... knew what to do the day he spoke . She knew what to answer , of course : there was no dallying with that . She was so clear and honest with herself as with others there was no self - delusion nor hypocrisy in her . She said " Yes ...
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Σελίδα 46 - If one side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle is greater than either of the interior, and opposite angles.
Σελίδα 78 - There is an old saying that if you take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves.
Σελίδα 14 - ... neither. He climbed softly over the back fence and crept up to the back door, but it was fast; then he crept round to the front door, and that was fast, too. There was no light in the house, and it was perfectly still. All of a sudden it struck him that he could sleep in the stable-loft, and he thought what a fool he was not to have thought of it before. The notion brightened him up so that he got the gourd that hung beside the well-curb and took it out to the stable with him; for now he remembered...
Σελίδα 113 - Lamb (Charles) Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1823.
Σελίδα 78 - ... The whispered tragedy invested her, in our childish mind, with a mysterious glamer that set her apart as something wierd and uncanny.) " 'James Catlett murdered when a young man by a favorite slave.' This was perhaps the most intensely dramatic situation ever felt in Gloucester County. "James Catlett was the only son of his mother, who was a widow. He was just returned from college, brilliant, handsome and rich, with life in its fulness spread out before him. "His bodyservant, a mulatto fellow,...
Σελίδα 63 - You don't have weddings every day in the family, and if I do a thing at all I like to do it well.
Σελίδα 262 - He did not wish to appear to attach too much importance to the pecuniary side of the business, for he had his share of tact. "Better for your daughter to marry someone you know — like myself, for instance," he said boldly, "than some young chap with no money and unreliable.
Σελίδα 290 - Now he raged that a son of his, blood of his blood, flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone...