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Página 17 - When thou art near me, Sorrow seems to fly, And then I think, as well I may, That on this earth there is no one More blest than I. But when thou leav'st me, Doubts and fears arise, And darkness reigns, Where all before was light. The sunshine of my soul Is in those eyes, And when they leave me All the world is night. But when thou art near me, Sorrow...
Página 203 - I'll see what I can do for you.' ' But, papa, it isn't about horses at all,' said Georgie timidly. ' Not about horses ! ' he exclaimed, looking up at her. ' Well, what is it, eh ? ' ' You — you said to-day, papa — perhaps some day I might — I might think about marriage.' ' Eh ? what, what ! marriage, is it ? Ah, my girl, I shan't know how to part with you, but I won't be selfish ; never fear, my dear, the old man won't be selfish. I won't say nay to any good man who will make my little girl...
Página 57 - study' was a haven of rest after this sort. Many a long hour had he and his eldest daughter, Georgie, spent together in this cosy retreat whilst the other members of the family were employed in other and more homely avocations ; the Squire dozing over his pipe, and Georgie writing letters in her father's name to the farmers, or settling in her own mind all about next month's meets, or often merely conning over the ordnance map and going over again in imagination some famous run of last season. For...
Página 120 - ... geraniums lying all dashed and draggled on the sopping lawn. The whole valley was filled with a misty drizzle, and the west wind howled in a melancholy way among the tall chimneys of the old house. Juliet met her guardian at breakfast with pitiful bemoanings over this dismal change in the weather. Let us be thankful that we are born under showery skies and changing winds, and that Providence has bestowed upon us a gift so appropriate to our needs as an ever varying climate ! Let us be thankful,...
Página 278 - What was the reason of it ? what made him so brutal to you ? ' ' Alas ! it was because I have lost my situation as music teacher. I am sure I did no wrong, did I, Mr. Travers, by walking with you ? But Mrs. Wilkins, the lady whose little girls I was teaching, saw me with you to-day, and she saw me once before, she says ; so she came this evening and told my father I was a bad girl, and that she would not have me to teach her children any more — and father was dreadfully angry, and beat me and...
Página 17 - ... listening to a sweet voice that sings over again, The sunshine of my life is in those eyes, And, when they leave me, all within is night. And then, from the gloom towards him, advances a girl with blonde head and blue eyes; who stretches out her hands to him for one moment — one moment, and she is gone : and he sees only a face ; the same face, but cold, and white, and impassive, as he saw her last — ah ! God, in her coffin ! *Oh!
Página 120 - But after a night spent in sleeplessly tossing up and down tipon her bed, in self-torturings and self-scoldings, Juliet rose in the morning in a more reasonable frame of mind. It was a hopelessly wet day, wet and windy, with the leaves coming down off the trees in showers ; a day that made Squire Travers rub his hands gleefully together as he drew aside his blind and looked out of the window. ' That's the sort ; soon bring the leaves all off the hedges at this rate ! ' he muttered hopefully to himself....
Página 23 - Why had she shocked and startled him with her unkind and heartless words ? What had possessed her ? She could not say. Only she knew that she felt a blind unreasoning hatred against that ' past ' of which he had spoken so regretfully and yet so tenderly — a woman of course ! What past can a man have in a woman's eyes that is not connected with her own sex ? But how foolish of her to imagine that her guardian, Colonel Fleming, old enough nearly to be her father, had had no such past, no woman to...
Página 168 - Dorsetshire farms, as we could settle it all so much better in a personal interview with him. I also much wish to have some talk with you about another matter that is most seriously on my conscience, namely, the Travers alliance. I have had a visit from young Mr. Travers himself, who has been good enough to honour me with his confidence, and I have also received a letter from his father on the same subject, and I think that you and I, my dear sir, shall be wanting in our duty to Miss Blair, and in...
Página 227 - ... indeed, I know myself of your affairs, it would be certainly a great advantage for the two properties to be united ; it appears that the whole of those outlying farms in the Lynedale valley, which now form part of Mr. Travers's property, did in point of fact actually belong to your great grandfather, who sold them very much beneath their value to the Travers family in order to pay the debts of a younger son. Now, such a proceeding was of course an iniquity, and if you can in any way repair and...