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By the Gate of the Sea: In Two Volumes, Volumen1 Christie-Murray David Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 49 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Página 56 - ... lived almost alone through the wild winter and the blustering spring. Early summer found him more and more ready to surrender himself to the intoxication of this singular madness. Perhaps it needs that a certain strain of greatness shall lie in a man's nature before he can go mad in that particular way. The compact small creature whose faculties are all of a size is as safe as the compact great creature whose powers are equally well balanced. Happily for most of us, the world is too much with...
Página 99 - The husband and wife looked at each other for a moment, and then retired non-btlierrrt. There had evidently been a mistake made somewhere.
Página 61 - It could not be dim cult to devise a means of seeing her or even of speaking to her, seeing that she was actually a trespasser upon his ground. He thought, however- of a score of devices, none of which commended themselves to him, and as he thought he strolled towards the spot where the gradual rise of the sands and the more precipitous fall of the cliff brought the two upon a level. This spot was about midway between...
Página 79 - From a curious dream,' he added, with an air of odd reluctance. ' Indeed ? ' she said questioningly. Tregarthen began to wish in a vague way that he had not mentioned this. His goddess might not care to know that one of her rarest charms had reminded him of an actress. But, having begun, he felt bound to go on, so he spoke with a feigned lightness, and looked anywhere rather than at his sweetheart's face.
Página 69 - Gorbay sc of self and friends, de nourishes of humility garthen saw nothing for it but to permit them to retire, though he would willingly have detained one of them a little longer. When they had gone, the young gentleman was guilty of what he felt to be a meanness. He stationed himself at his bedroom window, and thence, by means of a single-barrelled opera-glass which had belonged to his mother, he kept the lady of the voice in...
Página 117 - It had been in Mrs. Tregarthen's mind from the first, or almost from the first, that Arthur might love her so well that, in spite of her wickedness, he would seek her out and forgive her, and this hope had buoyed her up and weighed her down as such things will. Now she believed that he really had traced her, and her knees were so weakened VOL.
Página 38 - Lorrimer's, but the manager had an exalted idea of her usefulness, and the poet had the run of the house ; and was young enough to enjoy the satisfaction of taking off the glamour of theatrical performance by getting behind the scenes. There were, perhaps, a dozen men and women sprinkled about the dusky house— two or three in the pit and the rest scattered over the dress circle—when the curtain rose and discovered Adam and Orlando.