Matilda: A Tale of the Day ...H. Colburn, 1825 - 307 páginas |
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... less appearance of shame and contrition , than was painted in the countenances of these unhappy " young men about town , " as they ascended the car- peted stairs - about to expiate the offence of such unnatural prematurity of arrival ...
... less appearance of shame and contrition , than was painted in the countenances of these unhappy " young men about town , " as they ascended the car- peted stairs - about to expiate the offence of such unnatural prematurity of arrival ...
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... less constrained , this was explained , though not to the satisfaction of Lord George and Mr. Pen- ryn , by overhearing Lady Eatington telling the duchess , whose ears were almost as defective as her eyes , a long story , of which they ...
... less constrained , this was explained , though not to the satisfaction of Lord George and Mr. Pen- ryn , by overhearing Lady Eatington telling the duchess , whose ears were almost as defective as her eyes , a long story , of which they ...
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... less of each other than they would other- wise have done . During their stay at Delaval , Lady Matilda was generally employed in little charitable details for improving the comfort of those whom she considered as now dependent on her ...
... less of each other than they would other- wise have done . During their stay at Delaval , Lady Matilda was generally employed in little charitable details for improving the comfort of those whom she considered as now dependent on her ...
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... less bustle to the ceremony of unloading . He was involuntarily stopped therefore , whilst this was ef- fected ; and , as he stood on one side , completely veiled in that obscurity in which the capricious eco- nomy of gas still indulges ...
... less bustle to the ceremony of unloading . He was involuntarily stopped therefore , whilst this was ef- fected ; and , as he stood on one side , completely veiled in that obscurity in which the capricious eco- nomy of gas still indulges ...
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... less jaundiced eye , the outward advantages by which she was surrounded . As he pursued his wanderings , the idea often occurred to him , that this unhappiness might be connected with the meeting of that evening ; but it was as often re ...
... less jaundiced eye , the outward advantages by which she was surrounded . As he pursued his wanderings , the idea often occurred to him , that this unhappiness might be connected with the meeting of that evening ; but it was as often re ...
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acquaintance admiration anxious appearance arrived Augustus Arlingford Baronet beauty Boodle's Boulby brother carriage CHAPTER character charm Cheshire circumstances Colonel Canteen conceal connexion daugh daughter dear Delaval Park dinner door Dornton doubtful duties Eatington Emily endeavoured England English excited eyes favourable feelings felt female Geneva Genoa hand happiness Harry Wordsworth hear heard heart heroine Hobson family induced intimacy Italy knew La Scala Laceby Lady Ma Lady Matilda Lady Ormsby length light sail look Lord George Lord Ormsby Lord Wakefield manner Mechlin ment Milan mind Miss Anne Miss Hobson morning mother Naples never old Hobson once Ormsby's party passed Penryn person pleasure present recollection rendered replied Rome Santelmo seemed Simperton Sir James Sir James's situation society soon spirit sure Sydney thing thought tilda tion Tom Fool tone turned villa whilst wonder Woodhead young
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Página 268 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 148 - That strain again ! — it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, ( Stealing and giving odour !— Enough ; no more ; ( 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before.
Página 206 - Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them down...
Página 46 - Hobson was not at the time objected to. He was a steady, calculating foreman, in a large manufactory at Manchester. This situation he had gradually improved into that of a master of foremen ; and his small back lodging he had changed into the largest extent of staring brick front in Manchester. Mrs. Hobson, at the time of her marriage, was a silly, showy, bustling, chattering little body ; with a brisk figure, and brisker tongue, good humoured, illiterate, and vulgar.
Página 47 - Jemima, was at that becoming age when young ladies' hair is neither long nor short. As to the conversation of these Manchester graces, — being in considerable awe of a person of whom the Morning Post said so much as it did of Lady Matilda, they confined that to occasional verbal corrections of their mother's slip-slop, which their boarding school education fully qualified them to give.
Página 13 - ... circle, seemed anxiously to solicit a protecting nod from those around him, confirmative of the acquaintance he hoped he had made. Then came the wellestablished man of the world, who seemed carelessly to postpone the duties of recognition, till dinner and lights afforded him a more convenient opportunity of doing so. To him succeeded the 'cidevant jeune homme,' whose 'way of life is fall'n into the sear — the yellow leaf...
Página 1 - Raise me a little higher in my bed. — Blush I not, brother Acton ? Blush I not, Sir Charles ? Can you not read my fault writ in my cheek ? Is not my crime there ? Tell me, gentlemen.
Página 36 - The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 48 - I'm sure Jem couldn't have done better." She then broke at once into the subject now always uppermost in her thoughts ; namely, the extraordinary circumstance of being actually about to go abroad. " Well/' said she, " I hope that we shall all live as one family in foreign parts. To think of my going trapesing out of Old England! but my daughters must have the same advantages as the Miss Tomkins's, though they did make old Tomkins a knight the other day. But an't my brother a baronet ? to say nothing...