Oakshott castle, by Granby Dixon, ed. [or rather written] by H. Kingsley, Volumen21873 |
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A. C. Swinburne Aconite afraid Angela Bishop beautiful Bedlam believe Brogden Captain Aston Carbonari Cawsand CHAPTER child coxswain Crediton dead dear Granby death Dennis devil Dickie Dickie's Dixie doctor Dolmen Duchesse d'Avranches Earlie Edith Oakshott emphatically fellow fool gentleman gipsy woman girl gone gorilla Granby Dixon says grooms happened head House of Lords housekeeper Irishman James Richardson knew Lady Oakshott look Lord Oak Lord Oakshott lunatic magistrate marry matter mind Miss Clark Morley Grange Morley Moat Mother O'Brien never night nonsense nose Oakshott Castle Orman Street perfectly Piccadilly corner poem poetry poor pounds pretty Prime Minister Prout Punch and Judy Rector remember Ribton round sailor ship shott Sir Arthur sleep soul story talk tell thing thought told took utterly voice Whipple whispered white primroses wife wish wrote young
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Página 199 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine." Mr. G— - was very much startled, but he did not show it. He only said, "Can you drum, you boy ?" " Get your drum, boy," said Captain Aston. The boy came rattling along the passage with it in a few minutes, and drummed like a Frenchman, till he was told to leave off and go away.
Página 227 - for me, and why on earth you never made a greater for yourself I cannot understand. You are such a splendid financier. It is an astounding fact that a man who writes such rubbishing poetry, and publishes it, should finance so well." " Genius, my dear soul, genius. I have made £280,000 in two years.
Página 96 - Prince Pierre Buonaparte. The fact is that honest Dennis lost his temper, and the gipsy was getting the better of him. The gipsy was stripped, which was a puzzle to Dennis, but Dennis saw that the gipsy's deltoid was sufficiently developed to give a hold to his hand. He clutched the naked deltoid with
Página 73 - of London I have seen such beautiful love, tenderness, and kindness among people who are for all intents and purposes dead, that I think these people's souls must be immortal. From the moment that Dickie followed the gipsy away from the moat he died. He was far too young to have had any
Página 20 - Since then she has been teaching mathematics. Her father was Archdeacon Clark, and she is a dragon at mathematics, and will undertake to make astronomy plain to the meanest capacity. But, to stop joking, the Secretary at the College of Preceptors says that we have snapped up the cleverest woman in England dirt
Página 187 - could have made a fool of poor Ribton. The whole Board of Admiralty could not have made a fool of Captain Aston, RN Granby Dixon got him this place when he was Under Secretary to the Admiralty. Granby would have given him the Chichester herself to get rid of him, but he was not fit for
Página 219 - He turned and looked as he was told. He saw before him a grey woman, with the majesty of unutterable sorrow upon her face. The majestic expression of sorrow will make the meanest face beautiful. In this case it was reflected on a very beautiful face. Granby felt as though he were looking on one of
Página 81 - Shure, Mrs. Stanley, you asperate yourself widout cause. Would ye like to be roused from yer sleep by a kick in the small of your back yerself?" " Shut up—go to sleep, and keep the child warm," was the only answer the honest travelling Irish labourer got. Then there was silence. The man, with that exquisite tenderness towards