The Semi-detached HouseTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 311 pages |
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Page 171 - I HAVE a smiling face, she said ; I have a jest for all I meet; I have a garland for my head, And all its flowers are sweet: And so you call me gay, she said.
Page 265 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila: strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and...
Page 310 - Dim grow its fancies, Forgotten they lie ; Like coals in the ashes, They darken and die. Song sinks into silence, The story is told, The windows are darkened, The hearthstone is cold.
Page 227 - Ah, there they are,' said Mrs. Hopkinson, jumping up in a fright. 'Oh, John, what shall we do? I knew they would come to us in our turn.' 'Who would come, Jane?' said Captain Hopkinson, who was half asleep. 'Why, the burglars, of course! What will become of us! Where's my purse? I always keep a purse ready to give them, it makes them so goodhumoured. Oh, dear, what a noise they make, and they will be quite savage if they are kept waiting,' she said, as another violent ringing was heard.
Page 3 - ALTHOUGH this is not exactly a novel with a dogma, it is a novel with a notion. The notion is that we ought not to dislike to live in a semi-detached house. 'Oh, Aunt Sarah," exclaims one of the ladies in the first page, 'you don't mean that you expect me to live in a semidetached house." — 'Why not, my dear, if it suits you in other respects?" — 'Why, because I should hate my semi-detachment, or whatever the occupants of the other half may call themselves.' — 'They call themselves Hopkinson,'...
Page 228 - ... But, my dear, there is no danger ; burglars do not come and ring the bell and ask to be let in like a morning visitor. It must be the policeman." " Ah, poor man ! I daresay with his head knocked to pieces with a life-preserver, and all over kicks and bites. But, perhaps, he is only come to tell us the house is on fire," said Mrs. Hopkinson, with a sudden accession of cheerfulness. " I should not mind that, anything is better than robbers. Oh, John, now don't put your head out so far, those ticket-ofleave...
Page 18 - The men went daily to their offices or counting-houses, and the women depended for society on long morning visits from London friends and relations; and they did not, as they observed with much pride, "visit at Dulham"
Page 126 - We are all actors and actresses, says one of Miss Eden's characters, and "none of us quite up to our parts, though we act all day long.
Page 218 - ... but so it is, and we must make the best of it. This orange silk is not a good match, is it?