Purity Unwin: The Story of a FriendshipRemighton and Company, 1881 - 294 páginas |
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asked beauty better blackberries blackberry jam burst cheeks child Clary Unwin Clary's dare daughter Deane's dear Lady Clarissa exclaimed eyes face fancy farmer farmer's daughter father feelings forgive friendship Geoffrey George Unwin girl godchild godmother grave hand happy heard heart heir heiress hope husband Jeff's Jeffrey Deane kissed knew Lady Clarissa Unwin Lady Summerwood ladyship laugh leave lips listen Lord Summerwood lovey manner married Martha Williams Master Jeff matter mean merwood mind mother murmured nature never nurse once pale Park poor Prosper Mérimée Purity looked Purity Unwin Purity's Richard Unwin rose round Roundhead secret seemed sigh silence smil smile speak spoke stay stood strange Summer Summerwood Farm tears tell things thought told tone took trees turned uncon Unwin-Deane village voice wife wild wish woman wood word young lady young master youth
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Página 223 - The floating clouds their state. shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy. The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound 30 Shall pass into her face.
Página 222 - She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs ; And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things.
Página 176 - She has thrown her bonnet by, And her feet she has been dipping In the shallow water's flow. Now she holds them nakedly In her hands all sleek and dripping, While she rocketh to and fro.
Página 259 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Página 87 - A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, to command ; And yet a spirit, too, and bright With something of an angel light.
Página 162 - We fail ? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep, (Whereto the rather shall his day's hard...
Página 230 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Página 5 - ... M. Gibault gave a mission among the Arkansas in 1792 and 1793, and that this same year he was nominated pastor of New Madrid in the southern part of the State of Missouri. This is the last trace we have of him. My final researches have been unsuccessful. It is certain that he died at New Madrid in the end of the last century or at the beginning of the present.
Página 289 - There groups of merry children played; There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; Oh, precious hours ! oh, golden prime And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told,— " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Página 220 - the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft a-gley...