Anna Cavaye, Or, The Ugly PrincessHatchards, 1882 - 264 páginas |
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Alan Melville Anna's asked Aunt Carrie Aunt Mary Aunty beautiful Bessie Mardock Bessie's better bright Bristol Brook Street castle child Clarice answered Clarice Burne Clarice's Countess cried daresay dark dear door Dora Dorothy Douglas Kerr Elm Cottage Eva Gower Eva's eyes face Fareham feel felt garden glad glance gone governess grey happy heard heart Highminster knew Lady Glencoe Lady Westmoor Lake Lodge leave little Eva little girl little governess live looked Lucy married mind Miss Anna Miss Burne Miss Caroline Miss Gower Miss Rachel mother never Nurse once Paddington pleasant poor Porchester Portsdown Hill quiet quietly railway platform replied rest roses Sarah seemed sighed silence sister smile sorry story sunshine sweet talk tears tell things thought tired told tone uncle Vallance village voice walk Warwickshire weary window woman
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Página 77 - ... families still closer to each other. They only needed the dear old people and the young sister to complete their happiness ; but Aunt Mardock could not be persuaded to leave Porchester. She wished to die there, she said ; and she had her desire. A year and six months had gone by since the old lady was laid to rest under the shade of the grey Norman church ; and if Uncle Mardock had followed his inclination he would have left Porchester soon after the funeral. But Bessie's pleadings had kept him...
Página 82 - The sun burns sere and the rain dishevels One gaunt bleak blossom of scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping, Haply, of lovers none ever will know, Whose eyes went seaward a hundred sleeping Years ago. Heart handfast in heart as they stood, 'Look thither,
Página 82 - As the heart of a dead man the seed-plots are dry; From the thicket of thorns whence the nightingale calls not, Could she call, there were never a rose to reply. Over the meadows that blossom and wither Rings but the note of a sea-bird's song; 30 Only the sun and the rain come hither All year long. The sun burns sere and the rain dishevels One gaunt bleak blossom of scentless breath.
Página 188 - Why should I live ? Do I not know The life of woman is full of woe? Toiling on, and on, and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, And silent lips, and in the soul The secret longings that arise, AVhich this world never satisfies ! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy ; no, not one I URSULA.
Página 119 - ... the base of the great tower ! Lucy had hidden herself there, scarcely an hour ago, when they were playing hide-and-seek. At this moment Anna's passionate little soul was hot with hatred of Lucy ; she would have been glad to have struck her, or wreaked her rage upon her in some furious fashion. Miss Gower had looked and spoken as if she could never love Anna again, and it was all Lucy's fault — all, from beginning to end. She approached the dungeon-door and looked in. Who should be there but...
Página 250 - ... mistaking the earnestness of her manner, but he knew that it was wisest to be silent. Eva came out again, just then, to say that breakfast was ready, and they walked towards the house. After breakfast, Douglas took his departure from Porchester. His holiday had been prolonged on account of Alan Melville's wedding. Eva accompanied him in the fly to the railway station, and was unusually silent and grave. "We shall meet again very soon, my Eva," he said tenderly, as they stood waiting on the platform...
Página 226 - XX. BY THE OLD MILL. A MOKE vigorous man than Alan Melville would soon have shaken off the effects of the accident. But Alan's health and spirits were not strong enough to bear the shock he had sustained, and for several days he was ill enough to make Douglas fear that his recovery would be a long business. But Aunt Eachel was a perfect nurse, and Alan felt all the sweetness of womanly care and tending. He did not yet know that it was Clarice who had witnessed the accident, and found him lying in...
Página 169 - Douglas had dined in the old luxurious fashion of other days. As he sat at Melville's table the remembrance of many bachelor dinners returned to his mind, and the faces of lost comrades rose up before him again. Once more he seemed to be carried back to the glitter and gaiety of his former life ; old voices rang in his ears ; old scenes were re-enacted ; the present was an illusion, and the past a reality. He could scarcely believe that he had anything in common with the simple clerk in Mr. Maple's...
Página 51 - ... London, as she had listened to it through many wakeful nights. To that house she had come as a young bride, admired by all, and envied by not a few. Through its doors she had swept in her rich robes and stately plumes to court ; and in the very chamber where she lay, her elder son was born, and her husband had died. One earl had drawn his first breath, and another his last, in that old room. It was a chamber full of associations, some sorrowful, and others glad; and it seemed to be haunted by...