A Dangerous Secret: The House in Piccadilly. Philip MortonS. Low, Son, and Marston, 1864 |
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admiration Alice Ponsonby Alice's Althorpe asked beauty better Blanche blue blue riband brakeside glen Brenda britzka brother brow Buller called charming Collins dare daugh daughter dear Dervil Ardleigh dinner dress Dutton Eaton Square eyes face father feeling fellow felt Fred Leslie gentleman girl give gone hand happy head hear heart Helen honour hope horse husband James John Leighton Kate knew lady Leonard Ponsonby Leslie look Lord Ardleigh mamma manner marry Miss Ponsonby Miss Rivers mother never Newfoundland dog once perhaps pleasure Ponsonby's poor pretty Prince Rupert Queen Mab remark rendered replied ride Rivers's Roland Nepean round sister sonby sorrow spoke stood sure Sybil Rivers sympathy talk Tattenham Corner tell things thought told tone took wait walked Walter Buller Waltham Priory wife wish woman words young
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Página vii - —for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.
Página vii - As the husband is, the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee...
Página 182 - God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been...
Página 258 - Let the sweet heavens endure, Not close and darken above me Before I am quite quite sure That there is one to love me ; Then let come what come may To a life that has been so sad, I shall have had my day.
Página 24 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, When thus he met his mother's view, She had the passions of her kind, She spake some certain truths of you. Indeed I heard one bitter word That scarce is fit for you to hear; Her manners had not that repose Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.
Página 250 - Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme...
Página 182 - For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these — "It might have been I* Ah, well!
Página 247 - I may some day find my affinity in some other woman," he would be a Sentimentalist. He would be saying, " I will eat my wedding-cake and keep it." Or if a man should say, " I am a Republican, believing in the equality of citizens ; but when the Government...
Página 228 - ROSES. HAROLD, on a summer day, Gave me roses for my hair, — Roses red, and roses white, As if pale with Love's despair. White ones for my brow, he said, Red to blush beside my cheek, And a bud to whisper me Something that he dared not speak.
Página 238 - Oh ! young Lord lover ! what sighs are those For one who will never be thine...