Ida Craven, Volumen2

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Página 1 - ... because it adds and ministers to that covetousness, that hardness of heart, which furnishes us with an excuse — which we are all too ready to make — of not giving once, lest we might once be deceived. To a man living on the shady side of life, whose poverty compels him to walk with his own feet, hear with his own ears, and see with his own eyes, the contrasted conditions of London life afford much matter of painful contemplation. These contrasts are striking and forcible ; they run the whole...
Página 53 - Hebrew to him, but he put his arm round her and drew her to him, and said,— "Well, darling, I hardly understand you.
Página 171 - ... message was sent, and then very reluctantly took leave, trying, as he walked along the wet mud'dy road, to think of any means by which he could help the poor boy who seemed left in such a miserable friendless state. But it was a difficult question, and the doctor had arrived at no satisfactory solution by the time he had passed through the village and reached the gabled ivy-covered house where he lived. Trenant was a delightfully comfortable house, prettily furnished, exquisitely neat, and in...

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