Lisette's Venture, Volumen2H.S. King, 1874 |
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arms arrived asked attar of roses Audrey Aunt Leonora Banbury barouche behold Benwell beside better Bucklesbury Camilla Captain Selby carriage Chesham Place comfort confabulation cribbage Cronyn darling daughter dear door Dora Freeling Dora's drawing-room Easterton eau de Cologne Egbert's Square Esplanade exclaimed Lisette eyes face feel felt Firs Freeling's girl Godfrey Rivers Godfrey's gone Hacker hand happy head hear heard heart hend hour husband knew lapwing laughed lawn leave Lily little bride Lizzie London looking luncheon ma'am mamma marriage married mind Miss Freeling Miss Lomax Miss Sherlocks mistress morning mother never Nora old lady once pain Patricia Patty person pleasant poor practical joke pretty Princestown replied Godfrey returned Robert Arnott sake seated seemed smile soon spirits stood talk tell thought told Towns turned Twickenham walk whilst wife window wish words young
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Página 131 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Página 42 - French wine of us, of them our cloth is sought. No pearls, no gold, no stones, no corn, no spice, No cloth, no wine, of love can pay the price. What thing is love, which nought can countervail? Nought save itself, ev'n such a thing is love. All worldly wealth in worth as far doth fail, As lowest earth doth yield to heaven above. Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing, but with self.
Página 106 - True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
Página 52 - O ye Showers and Dew, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him for ever.
Página 48 - So let him take no thought for the morrow: "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Página 219 - ... dead within her then. In her eyes was the weary, hopeless, and dissatisfied expression which was becoming their normal one now, and told of a heart that had no comfort in it ; and all the while a horrible old-fashioned organ, of the dreariest tone, was grinding in the street without : ' Oh, there is nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream...
Página 104 - Where fear sees nothing but the black clouds that threaten coming storms, hope looks through them to the bow of promise. Hope is the internal principle of true courage. St. Paul, in his beautiful description of charity, tells us that it " hopeth all things " ; and we may easily perceive how it must...
Página 115 - I do hope you will enjoy it and that it will be successful. Thank you for asking me to contribute — that pleases me, too. I should like to do it. But you must tell me exactly what you would like me to do, and I will try to be pleasant and a bit old-fashioned.
Página 104 - I know that it is written, as thy day is, so shall thy strength be ; and again, my grace is sufficient for thee.