The Duke, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1839 |
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... Evelyn to have to un- dergo , with her refinement and innocence , the horrors of poverty ! Thank Heaven ! I have every reason to believe that Herbert is with them he B 5 THE COUSIN . 9 to have done, to their assistance- had you ...
... Evelyn to have to un- dergo , with her refinement and innocence , the horrors of poverty ! Thank Heaven ! I have every reason to believe that Herbert is with them he B 5 THE COUSIN . 9 to have done, to their assistance- had you ...
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... Evelyn Cecil . Previous to the fatal involvements of Captain Cecil , and the almost utter destitution they occasioned , the two families had lived upon terms of great intimacy : not that there was much sympathy between Lady Clairville ...
... Evelyn Cecil . Previous to the fatal involvements of Captain Cecil , and the almost utter destitution they occasioned , the two families had lived upon terms of great intimacy : not that there was much sympathy between Lady Clairville ...
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... Evelyn , the eldest daughter of Captain Cecil . Too proud to dissemble , the extent of his attach- ment soon became ... Evelyn's at- tractions assumed over her son , Lady Clair- ville fondly believed that Julian would again experience ...
... Evelyn , the eldest daughter of Captain Cecil . Too proud to dissemble , the extent of his attach- ment soon became ... Evelyn's at- tractions assumed over her son , Lady Clair- ville fondly believed that Julian would again experience ...
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... Evelyn , his lovely sister , two years younger ; four other children completed the family — a boy of nine years old , and three younger little girls . Herbert , both in person and in mind , was 34 THE DUKE AND CHAPTER III. ...
... Evelyn , his lovely sister , two years younger ; four other children completed the family — a boy of nine years old , and three younger little girls . Herbert , both in person and in mind , was 34 THE DUKE AND CHAPTER III. ...
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... Evelyn - the sweet , the winning , Evelyn , the adored idol of her brother's heart . Nothing could be more touching — more beau- tiful to behold , than the deep affection which mutually influenced them : so pure , so confid- ing so ...
... Evelyn - the sweet , the winning , Evelyn , the adored idol of her brother's heart . Nothing could be more touching — more beau- tiful to behold , than the deep affection which mutually influenced them : so pure , so confid- ing so ...
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admiration affection affliction anxi anxious apostacy apothecary appeared Baroness beautiful beloved Blanche bosom bright brother brow Captain Cecil Cecil family Charterhouse cheeks child Clairville's comfort confidence countenance cousin darling dear dearest deep Disney distress dread eau de Cologne Edwin endeavour Evelyn Cecil evinced exclaimed eyes fancied father fearful feelings felt fortune gaze gentle girl grief hand happy heart Honfleur honour hour indulgence interest Julian kind knew Lady Clair Lady Clairville Lady de Cressy Lady Florence lips looked manner marriage ment mind Monsieur Liot morning mother nature ness never nursling Oakwood once pale passed pleasure poor Evelyn portunity pride Rachael Regent's Park rence replied rience Riversdale rose scarcely seated seemed silent sister smile soon soothed sorbed sorrow speak spirit spoke stranger suffering sweet Evelyn tears tell tender thought tion unhappy walk watch wife wish woman words young youth
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Page 186 - Oh! when I am stricken, and my heart, Like a bruised reed, is waiting to be broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token!
Page 95 - Love knoweth every form of air, And every shape of earth, And comes, unbidden, everywhere, Like thought's mysterious birth. The moonlit sea and the sunset, sky Are written with Love's words, And you hear his voice unceasingly, Like song, in the time of birds. He peeps into the warrior's heart From the tip of a stooping plume, And the serried spears, and the many men. May not deny him room. He'll come to his...
Page 222 - O ye saints of His : and give thanks unto Him for a remembrance of His holiness. For His wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in His pleasure is life : heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Page 153 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 152 - The forehead of the beautiful child lay soft With the baptismal water. Then I thought That, to the eye of God, that mother's tears Would be a deeper covenant, which sin And the temptations of the world, and death, Would leave unbroken, and that she would know In the clear light of heaven, how very strong The prayer which...
Page 68 - They gathered round him on the fresh green bank, And spoke their kindly words; and, as the sun Rose up in heaven, he knelt among them there, And bowed his head upon his hands to pray.
Page 140 - ... withdraws from us, and while the shades of the evening darken upon our dwellings, the splendours of the firmament come forward to our view. In the moments when •earth is overshadowed, Heaven opens to our eyes the radiance of a sublimer being ; our hearts follow the successive splendours of the scene ; and while we forget, for a time, the obscurity of earthly concerns, we feel that there are " yet greater things than these," and that we " have a Father who dwelleth in the heavens, and who yet...
Page 51 - Was radiantly fair — This earth again may never see A loveliness so rare ! She glided up St. Mona's aisle That morning as a bride, And, full as was my heart the while, I bless'd her in my pride ! The fountain may not fail the less Whose sands are golden ore, And a sister for her loveliness, May not be loved the more ; But as, the fount's full heart beneath, Those golden sparkles shine, My sister's beauty seem'd to breathe Its brightness over mine ! St. Mona...
Page 170 - And he went forth — alone ! not one of all The many whom he loved, nor she whose name Was woven in the fibres of the heart Breaking within him now, to come and speak Comfort unto him. Yea — he went his way, Sick, and heart-broken, and alone — to die ! For God had cursed the leper ! It was noon, And...