Walter Goring: A Story, Volume 3Chapman & Hall, 1866 |
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Alice asked beauty believe better Brighton brother cause Charlie replied Charlie's charming cottage Daisy Daisy's Dawlish dear Deneham dread drive dull Ellen eyes face fact fair feeling Fellowes's felt forget Frank and Walter Frank drew Frank St girl glad gone Goring Place Guinevere half hand happy hard head heard heart Henry Fellowes hope horse hour Hurst husband John kiss knew late laughing Laurence Levinge lived looked marriage married mind Miss Dinah Miss Goring mother never night once Osborne pain passion picture pity pleasant pleasure poor Prescott pretty promise remembered Robert Prescott round seemed sister Sloane Street smile solitude sorrow spoke stay stood suffered sure tell things thought told touch truth uncon walked Walsh Walter Goring Walter Goring's wife woman women words worst young
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Page 73 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Page 98 - Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust; Love in a palace is perhaps at last More grievous torment than a hermit's fast: — That is a doubtful tale from faery land, Hard for the non-elect to understand.
Page 66 - twere given to mortal here, The pleasure of the lowered tone, The whisper in the trellised ear ; The furtive touch of tiny feet, The heart's wild effervescing beat, The maddened pulse's play : Those hearts are now all still and cold, Those feet are 'neath the churchyard mould, And I — have had my day ! What ! quiv'ring lips and eyelids wet At recollection of the dead ! No well-bred man should show regret Though youth, though love, though...
Page 67 - Or Veuve Clicquot's champagne. Yet I have known — ay, I have known, If e'er 'twere given to mortal here, The pleasure of the lowered tone, The whisper in the trellised ear ; The furtive touch of tiny feet, The heart's wild effervescing beat, The maddened pulse's play : Those hearts are now all still and cold, Those feet are 'neath the churchyard mould And I — have had my day ! What ! quiv'ring lips and eyelids wet At recollection of the dead ! No well-bred man should show regret Though youth,...
Page 23 - Then she took up the burden of life again, Saying only,
Page 214 - A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ; It's loveliness increases, it will never Pass into nothingness, but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Page 59 - When anything larger is set before them in a new light, it is invariably so set by a man. It has never been a woman who has first suspected corruption in either a creed or a cabinet. If they have a doubt, they crush it. They like to believe in a lot of things, the more the better. Calls on their credulity in things of vital importance to humanity are never made in vain. They like to have large bundles of things that...
Page 54 - The dream of fame and fortune was gone, but the desire of having some interest independent of her home life still flourished. Indeed, it became more desirable every day almost that she should possess some such safeguard. Her legal lord had lost the hold he had had over her at one time ; she stood by herself now, and the worst of it was that she knew that she stood by herself.