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jones s and such was the fury of the gale that only a of the ship s passengers remained perpendicular and mr was on his beam end by severe and expecting to become in the great secret bitterly did he lament his hard lines in venturing upon the black water to be oflf in the flower of his and never again to behold the bel...
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the cow yards and attained the shelter of a tree stem behind which she awaited the arrival of her as he noted her jewel like eyes hair and panting bosom mr s of flesh was by love at first sight the intelligent reader will please understand that the foregoing to the maiden and not at all to the cow which was of no exces...
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the duke greatly agitated replied that he was obliged for the caution and requested to depart at once and remain an for the future which our friend cheerfully undertook to perform and in taking leave of the her with an eloquence that moved all present to abandon her and and adopt a more becoming to her exterior the rea...
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few worms and angle for or else he would stalk and once he even assisted in a when he easily all the dogs and singly confronted master who had turned to bay savagely at his nose but descended from his horse and drawing his hunting dagger so dismayed the beast by his determined and ferocious aspect that it turned its ta...
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and all who were non took up positions as far outside the of fire as possible mr was rejoiced to receive fi om the above mentioned mr a secret intimation that it was the put up job and little piece of which him to make the rather spirited proposal to his that they were to fire not at the distance of one hundred paces ...
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but i wished to convince all present that i am not to hit a mark and he proceeded to assure mr that he was to receive full compensation for any moral and intellectual damage done to his said hat as for his he was so overcome lord jolly is satisfied author s note on illustration no iv the incident has already been found...
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but not least one morning appeared a leading an of the complexion of a chestnut and bearing an signed paper stating that said horse was a gift to mr from a admirer our friend was like to throw his bonnet over the mills with excessive joy and could not be persuaded to rest until he had made a trial trip on his gifted ho...
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nose and destroy its was only the more bitterly against him instead of the that had a from flown back as if it were that the she was in a greater than ever and resolved to leave no stone to trip him up but what trick to play seeing that all the honours were in mr s hands she could not as to him in the affections of hi...
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carts in its progress which was by any hand for the milk himself was pursuing on foot his natural in affairs a l enabled mr to infer that the which could cut such a record when with a chariot would exhibit even greater speed if in and that it might even not carry off first prize in the race so as the milk ran up with a...
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not entertained any sanguine hope that it would be granted and the dark horse t i had only inserted it to make doubly sure for he was every day more confident that way was to win even though obliged to step off with the rank and file chapter x trust her not she is thee as the sunset flames most fiery when out by sudden...
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the means of breaking his fall not only my fall but your own nose retorted mr a sad pity fortunately at your time of life such a from are of no consequence i myself am now in the pretty and he explained how he had been arrested for debt at the very moment when he had an appointment to meet his mare and and see them sa...
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a comer when he returned to neither the nor the mare was perceptible to his naked eyes and he had been searching in vain for them ever since it was the time not for words but deeds and mr did not indulge in futile but sat down and composed a reply wire to the clerk of course in these simple words have you seen my mare ...
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to excuse this humble pen from the horrors of that wild and desperate ride suffice it to say that the road was full with every description of conveyance and that mr was haunted by two terrible apprehensions that he might meet with some shocking upset and that he should arrive the day after the fair as he urged on his h...
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the race for an hour or two until the horse has recovered her breeze quite unnecessary said my mare is not such a as you imagine and will be as fit as a after she has one or two champagne bottles and his was literally fulfilled for the champagne soon rendered way playful as a mr ascended into his saddle the other horse...
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with our hero that he should be thus wrecked in sight of port on account of an ordinary act of courtesy to a female but mr preserved his as as though he possessed the hide of a sir said he addressing the judge i humbly beg permission to claim this race and lodge an objection against my on what was the naturally astonis...
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may be a soft spot in the most quarters even alexander the great who spent the blood of his troops like pocket money is recorded to have wept at a review on suddenly reflecting that all his soldiers would probably be deceased in a hundred years it is barely possible that may have been a spectator of this incident h b ...
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a certain painter set himself to a lovely landscape see he cried as he exhibited his canvas to a passing stranger doth not this my picture resemble the scene with since thou to know was the reply thou to me to have nothing but a heap the of and am to blame exclaimed the indignant painter if a heap chanced to be immedia...
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sideways keenly the almost invisible house with an ii est which the indistinct picture itself seemed far from to create yes that s lord s he yet again after a while as he still looked in the s direction what be we going there no j as i have told you i thought you m t have altered your mind sir a have stared that way at...
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a horn dangling from his hand a pair of blue e yes time o night a b and the clock only gone even of em show a light and let us in william worm o that you robert nobody else william worm and is the visiting man a come yes said the stranger is mr at home that a is sir and would ye mind coming round y the back way the fro...
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for your proposal to accommodate him he will take advantage of your offer nd will probably reach your house at some hour of the evening you may put every confidence in him and may rely upon his in the matter of church architecture trusting that the plans for the restoration which i shall prepare m the details of his s...
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a family of professional men now t am not inquisitive i on t ask questions of that kind it is not in me to do so but it is plain as the nose in your face that there s your origin and mr smith i congratulate you upon your blood blue blood sir and upon my life a very desirable color as the world goes i wish you could c...
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the room into this nook he squeezed himself and gazed wistfully up into s face so long and so earnestly gazed he that her cheek deepened to a more and more crimson tint as each line was added to her song concluding and pausing motionless after the last word for a minute or two she ventured to look at him again his feat...
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rather early which way did you go to the sea i everybody goes sea ward no i followed up the river as far as the park wa you are different from your kind well i a wild place is a and so tempted you c a pair of e e yes not altogether a novelty i like the place you must you must to go cock watching the morning after a jou...
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can accompany a man to his tomb under any circumstances there was nothing horrible in this churchyard in the shape of tight with sticks which shout imprisonment in your ears rather than whisper rest or trim which only raise images of people in new black and white handkerchiefs coming to tend them or wheel g which remin...
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accent of one who concealed a sin chapter v bosom d high in it was breakfast time as seen from the dining room which took a warm tone of light from the fire the weather and scene i outside seemed to have itself in shades of grey the long armed trees and shrubs of and pine varieties were black those of the broad sort to...
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among his private which he forgot to take with him what did he send in the letter the key of a private desk in which the papers are he doesn t like to trust such a matter to anybody else i have done such things for him before and what i propose is that we make an afternoon of it all three of us go for a drive to bay c...
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of the same pattern the stones of these together with of the were surmounted by grotesque figures and variety tall twisted chimneys thrust themselves high up into the surpassed in height however by some and at the back which showed x oo s over ridge and e c a pa ib of blue eyes court whose were entirely o by and window...
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wall of this wing was a broad window having its blind drawn down and ted by a light in the room it on the blind was a shadow from somebody close it it a person in the was of it was just possible to see that his arms uplifted and that his hands held an article of some then another shadow appeared also in came close to...
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her statement on second thoughts i will take it she said they slowly their way up the hill a few yards behind the carriage how silent you are miss observed perhaps think you silent too she returned i may have reason to be scarcely it is sadness that makes people silent and you can have none you don t know i have a trou...
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turned towards the house entering it through the went round to the front door ir was standing on the step in his slippers was a in the harness and murmur ig about his poor head and everything was ready for s departure you named august for your visit august it shall be hat is if you care for the society of such a tory a...
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been an ford or cambridge man t yes j he was an oxford man fellow of st s yes there s no doubt the thing ever i y e a x a pair of blue l yes court starting with astonishment that the pupil of such a man the best and man in england i cried that the pupil of such a man should pronounce latin in the way you pronounce ...
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had not supposed so latent could co exist with mr ness and good nature you shall not be disappointed said the a length it is almost too long a distance for you to can trot down on her pony and you shall have nm old smith exclaimed triumphantly you have never me on horseback o you must she looked at and read his though...
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treat under he circumstances there then j i ll take my glove off isn t it a pretty hand ah you don t want to kiss it and you shall ot now if i do not may i never kiss again you severe ou know i think more of you than can tell that you are y queen i would die for you a rapid red again filled her cheeks and she looked at...
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my not any one that i know of suppose there is something connected with me makes it almost impossible for you to agree to be my s or for your father to countenance such an idea nothing shall make me cease to love you no li can be found upon your personal nature that is pure arm i generous i know and having that how can...
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told us last night he is a fine fellow laugh as you will miss i know be is hero but do v a pair of blue eyes he writes what does he write i have never heard of his name because his personality and that of several others like him is absorbed into a huge we namely the called the present a social and literary review is ...
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early afternoon hfe ascended with giddy paced haste the windy range of rocks to where they had sat felt and peered about the stones and but s stray jewel was nowhere to be seen next slowly his steps and pausing at a cross road to reflect awhile he left the and struck downwards across some fields in the direction of hou...
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a case in point she was vividly imagining for the twentieth time the kiss of the morning and putting her lips together in the position another such a one would demand when she heard the identical operation completely performed on the lawn immediately beneath her window a kiss not of the quiet and stealthy kind but dec...
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same your ways shall be my ways until i die did you ever think what my parents might be or what society i originally moved in no not particularly i have observed one or two little points in your manners which are rather no more i suppose you have moved in the ordinary society of professional people supposing i have not...
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no wonder but remember i have not lived here since i was nine years old t o e with my uncle near xv i o i si a fair of ue e yes tend a national school as a day scholar there was none in this remote part then it was there i met with my friend knight and when i was fifteen and had been fairly educated by the and more pa...
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back towards herself talking to her father she would have retired but mr had seen her come in he said it is only martin come for a copy of the register for poor mrs martin the was rather a favorite with he used to her attention by telling her of strange e in digging up after long years the i of persons he had known and...
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maids passed on do you forgive me said with a faint smile no man is fair in love and he took her fingers lightly in his own with her head thrown sideways in the attitude she looked a tender reproach at his doubt and pressed his hand returned the pressure v ly went off to bis father s cottage by the ol e xi e park a pai...
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ever heard in my life what story was that o no no i i wouldn t tell you such an improper matter for the world if his father and mother had lived in the north or east of england gallantly persisted though her sobs began to interrupt her anywhere but here you would have only regarded him and not them his station wou...
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i d em and go to better families who do want you ah yes but could never put up with the of being welcomed among such people as you mean while i could get indifference among such people as t what crazy twist o thinking wool come to l s bis mother and come to that she s not a a xx oo v a pair of blue eyes for you or you ...
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bread in nine the discussion now dropped and as it was getting late bade his parents farewell for the evening his mother none the less warmly for their for although mrs smith and were always they were never at enmity and possibly said i may leave here altogether to morrow i don t know so that if i shouldn t call again ...
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boyish face a fancy rooted in by seclusion into a wild for anything all the elements of such a ao si a pair of blue eyes there the chief one being a necessary always to perfect the mixture of feelings united under the name of loving to distraction we would tell papa soon would we not she inquired timidly nobody else...
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they wish to take up the carpets or some such thing i think as i said i don t like you to be seen in a town on horseback alone but go if you will thursday week her father had named the very day that also had named that morning as the earliest on which it would be of any use to meet her that was about fifteen days from ...
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hopelessly melancholy about it don t believe anything in the world would make me hopelessly melancholy and don t let anything make you so either i won t papa she cried with a serene brightness that pleased him certainly mr must have been far from thinking that the brightness came from an intention to hold back no longe...
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a black came and placed itself between herself and the sun it helped on what was already inevitable and she sank into a of sadness she turned in the saddle and looked back they were now on an open table land whose still gave her a view of the sea by she looked at that spot during this little of feeling had been still a...
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the mind which must cause much pain at its in words had known no more about the of evil report than the native wild fowl knew of the effects of s first shot now she saw a little farther and a little farther still the train stopped the soft hand he had held all the day and proceeded to assist q the platform this act of ...
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rather quaint array of stone and metal mrs wore no ornament whatever had been impressed with mrs at their meeting about two months earlier but to be pleased with a woman as a momentary acquaintance was different from being taken with her as a step mother however the of feeling was but for a moment decided to like her s...
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this place a placid porter is sitting on a stool under a tree in the midst with a little cane in his hand we notice the thick coat of upon the branches hanging underneath them in as in the chimney the blackness of these boughs does not at present improve the tree nearly forsaken by its leaves as it is but in the spri...
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understand the frame of mind a little so go on your she is rather higher in the world than me as it should be and her father won t hear of it as i now stand not an uncommon case and now comes what i want your advice upon something has happened at her house which makes it out of the question for us to ask her father ag...
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actions mean yes i go to write a note here if you don t mind sleep over it it is the best plan and write to morrow meantime go there to that window and sit down and look at my humanity show i am going to dine out this evening and have to dress here out of my i bring up my things like this to save the trouble of going...
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house at was ready and they were all in town the park shrubs had been as usual the chairs in line the grass trimmed the roads made to look as if they were suffering from a heavy carriages had been called for the horses for the brisk and the drive and row were again the of for an hour we gaze upon the spectacle at six o...
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be the satin of le invariably the complexion of the face it yet seemingly by an accident which makes the ling so attractive there s the red book lying on the op seat the vast numbers of their and i particularly admire the aspect of that woman on the other side i mean her ok of that the girls are stared at by the and ...
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evening of the day succeeding that of the meeting in the park and mrs were engaged in conversation in the dressing room of the latter such a treatment of such a case was in process of h re had just before received an affectionate letter from smith in which had been forwarded to her from but since this is not the case r...
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and a stranger with neither name nor shape age nor appearance but a mighty voice is rather an interesting novelty to a lady he chooses t address when fell asleep that night she was the writer of the letter but thinking of the writer of thai article chapter xvi then fancy shapes as fancy can on a day about three weeks ...
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been thoroughly savage with you a pair of blue eyes wrote with rather more than simple literary discussion required this was introduced to save the character of the s judgment under any issue of affairs well here i go said desperately tearing open the seal to be sure of coarse exclaimed mrs and looking up from her lett...
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at his heels whistling as he went with his eyes fixed upon knight s boots s fell when tbey bad reached a point oi ft j a p i of ue e yes in which mrs and miss lay in stopped and turned round look here my boy he said the boy parted his h opened his eyes and answered nothing here s sixpence for you on condition that you ...
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arose and stepped to the window having heard the voices of her father and mrs coming up below the terrace here they are she said going out knight walked out upon the lawn behind her she stood upon the edge of the terrace close to the stone and looked towards the sun hanging over a just now fair as s up which her father...
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but you can t walk said knight you don t know that how can you i am only frightened i tell you she answered and raised her hand to her forehead knight then saw that she was bleeding from a severe cut in her wrist apparently where it had descended upon a corner of the too seemed to perceive and feel this now for the fir...
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unfortunate and the contest proceeded having now rather the better of the game then he won the exchange regained his position and began to press her grew and placed her queen on his remaining s file there how stupid upon my word i did not see your of course nobody but a fool would have put a queen there she spoke exci...
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s mind in this manner is half way to her heart for the distance between her reason and her feeling is short and are you really going away this week said mrs to knight on the following evening which was sunday they were all leisurely climbing the hill to the church where a last service was now to be held at the rather e...
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is altogether a failure well you know what i mean even though my words are badly selected and commonplace she said impatiently because i utter commonplace words you must not suppose i think only commonplace thoughts my poor stock of words are like a limited number of rough i have to cast all my materials in good and ba...
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turned his back upon the parish of and crossed over to cork one day of absence itself on another and his heart he pushed on to the lakes of amid their luxuriant woods surveyed the infinite variety of island hill and to be there found listened to the marvellous echoes of that romantic spot but altogether missed the glor...
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upon which lay trailing like ropes on a in these revealed the blue sea with a few of white and a solitary white sail the whole up to a keen horizon which lay like a line ruled from hill side to hill side then they rolled down a pass the toned rocks forming a wall on both sides from one of which fell a heavy jagged shad...
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usual quiet dreamy of such occasions when every deed done and thing thought is in to avoid doing and thinking more looking idly on er the verge of a they beheld their dining table gradually being upon and their and fragments all washed away by the sea the drew a moral lesson from the scene knight replied in the same s...
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read than i and perhaps you knew all this long ago one day i bought some small native to send home to you as but afterwards finding they had been cast in england made to look old and over i threw them away in disgust speaking of this reminds me that we are obliged to import all our house building iron work from england...
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was the do you really wish to know papa well i do remember i am a full grown woman now well what then being a woman and not a child i may i think have a secret or two you will it seems women have as a rule but don t keep them so speak out if you will not press me now i give my word to tell you the meaning of all this b...
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nearer to the shore than to the horizon from the summit of which came a haze stretching like over the sea the from to said i think that is it look glass r io a pair of blue eyes knight pulled open the old fashioned but powerful and handed it to who had looked on with heavy eyes i can t keep it up now she said rest i...
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by the i find a difficulty in getting back said knight s heart fell like lead but you can get back she wildly inquired knight strove with all his might for two or three minutes and the drops of perspiration began to bead his brow no i am unable to do it he answered by a of thought forced away from her mind the sensatio...
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centuries of frost and rain and now left it without much support it moved knight seized a of sea pink with each hand the rock which had been his salvation was worse than useless now it rolled over out of sight and away into the same sky that had the one of the by which he held came out at the root and knight began to f...
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had had day between this creature s epoch and his own there is no place like a landscape for bringing home such as these time a up like a before him he saw himself at one extremity of the o m a pair of blue eyes and all the centuries simultaneously fierce men clothed in the hides of beasts and carrying for defence and...
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and faith like a gathered flower will live on a long time after has ceased nobody would have expected the sun to shine on such an evening as this yet it appeared low down upon the sea not with its natural golden fringe sweeping the farthest ends of the landscape not with the strange glare of whiteness which it sometime...
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will lean directly upon the bank holding with my hands as well it was the arrangement he had thought of but would not suggest i will raise and drop it three times when i am behind the bank she continued to signify that i am ready take care o take the greatest care i beg you i she dropped the rope over him to learn how ...
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the west village and near it had little of physical feature in common the latter east was more wooded and fer it boasted of lord s mansion and park and free from those bleak open which lent such ar of desolation to the of the coast always ing the small valley in which stood the and s old house the had arrived nearly a...
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the minute hand the clock stopped this morning and your mother is putting en right seemingly said his father in an tone and they went up the garden to the door when they had entered and had and warmly greeted his mother who appeared in a cotton dress of a dark blue ground covered with a multitude of new and full stars...
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mrs smith john round the roots you know in goes his through roots everything that hasn t got a good show above ground turning em cut all to only the very last o when i found every s of blue eyes crooked round he had turned em over in the spring and the cunning creatures had soon found that heaven was not where it used ...
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better when a was killed and a was very tender eating very as pretty a bit of mate as ever you see j you could that mate through a and another i resumed the after quietly letting a pint of ale run down his throat of its own accord and setting down the cup with upon the spot from which he had raised it another went out...
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need be never mind mother said j put up with it now when we leave my lord s service and get farther down the country as i hope we shall soon it will be different we shall be among fresh people and in a larger house and shall keep ourselves up a bit i hope is miss at home do you know inquired yes your father saw her t...
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as he had come there are disappointments which us and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever them they become at once as a permanent loss of happiness such a one was s now the crowning of the dream had been the mee...
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front of him had taken this route by the occasional rattle of the loose stones under feet climbed in the same direction but for some reason he trod more softly than did those preceding him his mind was unconsciously in exercise upon whom the female might be whether a visitor to the a servant or he put it to himself ye...
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been had become true enough as regarded himself a slow weight of despair as distinct from a violent as starvation from a mortal shot filled him and wrung him body and soul the discovery had not been altogether unexpected for throughout his anxiety of the last few days since the night in the churchyard he had been incli...
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who have romantic sentiments on the subject of their last dwelling place probably the greater number would have chosen such a spot as this in preference to any other a few would have fancied a in its trim neatness and would have preferred the hill top of the neighboring site with nature in her most attire the light in...
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and a good hearted pair likewise ay i can mind it though i was but a at the time she fell in love with this young man of hers and their were asked in some church in london and the old lord her father actually heard em asked the three times and didn t notice her name being on wi a host of others when she had married she...
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a sigh it is nice to feel that in giving way to to caring for him i have pleased my family but i am not good o no i am very far from that none of us are good i am sorry to say said her father but girls have a right to change their minds you know it has been recognized by poets from time says in what a memory mine is h...
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be i must know all you have been doing that you have i know and you must teach me the way stood in the background had read the position at a glance and immediately guessed that she had never mentioned his name to knight his tact in avoiding was the chief quality which made him respectable in which quality he far knight...
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jack upon the weak and minute stem ow si growth depends and ask can x n a capacity s a foundation so i t js a pair of blue eyes return to my daily walk in that narrow cell a human body where worldly thoughts can torture me do we not yes said and one has a sense of wrong too that such an breadth as a being possesses s...
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get some water no no do you think it is safe for you to mount quite indeed it is she said with a look of appeal now then up she goes whispered knight and lifted her tenderly into the saddle her old lover still looked on at the performance as he leaned over the gate a dozen yards off once in the saddle and having a fi...
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gave you to understand what was not true i fancy you thought me to mean i was nineteen my next birthday but it was my last i was nineteen k the moment had been too much for pi the crisis had come no oi c v honesty no yearning to make a c xv c x ax c a pair of blue eyes given ess with a kiss could string up to the vent...
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then as the insult you now pretend it was he begged me not to tell and foolishly enough i did not and i wish i had now i little expected to be with my own kindness pray leave me mrs well you harshly dismissed him and he died and before his body was cold you took another to your heart then as carelessly sent him about h...
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ever get thin of course a sensible woman would rather lose her wits than her beauty i don t care if you do say satire and judge me cruelly i know my hair is beautiful everybody says so why my dear miss he tenderly replied i have not said anything against it but you know is said about handsome being and handsome doing p...
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at ease ah you should see them j you look than ever fancy that i have been able to improve you am i really so nice i am glad for your sake i wish i could see myself you can t you must wait till we get home i shall never be able she said laughing look here s a way so there is well done woman s wit hold me steady and don...
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sea sickness by coming this way can it be inquired the with apprehension surely not mr knight just here in our own english channel close at our doors as i may say entrance passages are very places and the channel is like the rest it ruins the temper of sailors it has been calculated by philosophers that more oaths go ...
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a low slow chat about affairs she ran up and slipped her hand through knight s arm partly for love partly for not asleep said knight after moving a few steps aside with her no i cannot sleep may i stay here it is so dismal down there and and i was afraid where are we now due south of bill those are the lights of us lo...
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of love making and matrimonial pre arrangement than i and so you can t draw if i do my engaging i think you do it beautifully thank you dear but continued knight your opinion is not that of an expert which alone is of value had she answered yes it is half as strongly as she felt it knight might have been a little aston...
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musing on the subject because it perplexed him it was a gift those were her words admitting it to be a gift he thought she could hardly value a friend more than him and giving the flower into his charge would have made no difference except indeed it was the gift of a lover he murmured i wonder if ever has had a lover ...
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that well this said knight somewhat unwillingly that experience teaches that your sweetheart no less than your tailor is necessarily very imperfect in her duties if you are her first patron and the sweetheart who is graceful under the kiss must be supposed to have had some practice in the trade and do you mean to say t...
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told you once he said following out his thoughts that i never kissed a woman as a sweetheart until i kissed you a kiss is not much i suppose and it happens to few young people to be able to avoid all and caressing except from the one they afterwards marry but i have peculiar weaknesses and because i have led a peculiar...
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by some intervening trees being denied an answer was looking at the tower and trying to think of some quotation she might use to regain his tenderness after a little thought she said in winning tones thou hast been my hope and a strong tower for me against the enemy they passed on a few minutes later three or four bird...
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