Mabel's cross, by E.M.P.1861 |
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acquaintance affection affectionate agitation Alan Cameron Angus Angus's anxiety Arbuthnott assured Aunt Maggie Bella Vista Ben Nevis blush Bruce Burnside called Canton of Uri Captain Forsyth Captain Vandeleur Carte de Séjour cheek chieftain Clavering and Helen colour countenance cousin Cyril Herbert daughter dear dread Edinburgh endeavoured event expression eyes Falconbridge Fanchette farewell father fear feelings felt gave girl Giulietta give Gordon Graeme Graeme's hand happiness heard hearing heart Helen Clavering hope Hugh Balfour interest kind Lady Herbert lassie leave letter Lilias Lochiel looked Lucerne Mabel Balfour Maggie's manner Marion meeting Menteith Castle Miss Balfour Miss Clavering mistress morning mother Nelly old lady painful party passed perhaps pleasure poor received recovered rose scarcely Scotland seemed sister smile soon sorrow spirit Steenie stranger suffering sweet thought TINSLEY BROTHERS tion usual Vaucluse voice walk William Hogarth wish words young
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Page 195 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 59 - ... will soon rush in To spread the breach that words begin ; And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day ; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said ; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds — or like the stream That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could sever, Yet, ere it reach the plain below, Breaks into floods that part for ever.
Page 253 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,
Page 59 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity!
Page 270 - The Religious Life of London. By J. EWING RITCHIE, author of the " Night Side of London,
Page 270 - ... to be to have one monumental Obelisk of Romance, with the name of a Bulwer, a Dickens, a Thackeray, a George Eliot, or a Lever, carved upon it, and surrounded for hundreds of leagues by a dead level of dreary three-volume performances." — The Illustrated News. Now Ready, Price 3s. 6d., a New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition of THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON. Third Edition. By J. EW1NG RITCHIE, Author of " About London,
Page 152 - But coldness dwells within thy heart, A cloud is on thy brow. We have been friends together...
Page 180 - Smiled father-like, to think of her, his little unseen child. Hark ! what terrific cry was that of horror and affright, Which broke like some tempestuous sound the stillness of the night...
Page 19 - The laudable effort was almost beyond his strength ; for he could no longer deceive himself as to the nature of Ellesif's sentiments.