Rose Cottingham: A NovelG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915 - 399 pages |
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Page 134 - Every temptation resisted, is an enemy subdued ; and " he that ruleth his own spirit, is better than he that taketh a city.
Page 288 - She tried to speak, but her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth, and it was the dying woman who spoke. "LittleRose!
Page 33 - He jumped out of bed and looked out of the window. It was a beautiful, sunny day.
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Page 233 - I was shown to my room and was settling in when there was a knock at the door, followed by the entrance of a delegation from the immigration authorities.
Page 3 - Rose leaned upon the wall and watched them, and looked at the flushed, gently heaving sea, and heard the lap of the water against the piles of the pier, and the cries of the gulls as they rose and swooped and circled just outside the harbour.
Page 43 - ... conversational opening. She laughed till Lucie, hitherto industriously and without the smallest comprehension insisting in a copybook that "the whale is a mammal," joined in her mirth and began carelessly to smudge the record of the mysterious fact.