Friends and Fortune: A Moral TaleD. Appleton & Company, 1849 - 240 pages |
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Page 14
... any thing , Nisbett : your taste always improves mine , and I shall require it all to arrange our dresses . Antoine will prompt you whenever you are at fault ; so now both of you go - let me have the carriage 14 FRIENDS AND FORTUNE .
... any thing , Nisbett : your taste always improves mine , and I shall require it all to arrange our dresses . Antoine will prompt you whenever you are at fault ; so now both of you go - let me have the carriage 14 FRIENDS AND FORTUNE .
Page 15
... dress ; a confidential mantuamaker and mil- liner was kept in the house for several days on purpose : but it required all her skill , all Nisbett's assistance , and all Miss Armadale's eloquence and authority , to accomplish the de ...
... dress ; a confidential mantuamaker and mil- liner was kept in the house for several days on purpose : but it required all her skill , all Nisbett's assistance , and all Miss Armadale's eloquence and authority , to accomplish the de ...
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... dresses , new collars , and bright new rib- bons : their mamma in her best morning gown , and an im- pressive cap : the children , of whom there were a slight sprinkling all over the house , besides the elder specimens al- ready named ...
... dresses , new collars , and bright new rib- bons : their mamma in her best morning gown , and an im- pressive cap : the children , of whom there were a slight sprinkling all over the house , besides the elder specimens al- ready named ...
Page 26
... dress . She took no notice , and to his great relief went on talking as if nothing had hap- pened her voice was so pleasant in his ears , and it was so new for him to be talked to , that he hardly knew what he was about , and went on ...
... dress . She took no notice , and to his great relief went on talking as if nothing had hap- pened her voice was so pleasant in his ears , and it was so new for him to be talked to , that he hardly knew what he was about , and went on ...
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... dress my- self to - morrow morning ; you may just give me a look in , though , as if by accident . ' " " " Yes , yes , maʼam ; I'll find ways of waiting upon you , as Antoine does , without being noticed . Dear me and you've only a hard ...
... dress my- self to - morrow morning ; you may just give me a look in , though , as if by accident . ' " " " Yes , yes , maʼam ; I'll find ways of waiting upon you , as Antoine does , without being noticed . Dear me and you've only a hard ...
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Page 39 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 40 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 39 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..