Perplexity, by Sydney Mostyn, Volumen3 |
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... mean as that which is to men and women what the perfume is to the flower , the light to the lamp . Love in your eyes is a mere agency that is to be rendered useful by subordinating it to self- interest . We take opposite views ; we can ...
... mean as that which is to men and women what the perfume is to the flower , the light to the lamp . Love in your eyes is a mere agency that is to be rendered useful by subordinating it to self- interest . We take opposite views ; we can ...
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... mean to adopt . If you will not receive her , there will be no alternative that I can see but to seek another place for you to live in . Of course I entreat that you will not drive me to so unpleasant a remedy . ' He passed from the ...
... mean to adopt . If you will not receive her , there will be no alternative that I can see but to seek another place for you to live in . Of course I entreat that you will not drive me to so unpleasant a remedy . ' He passed from the ...
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... mean with respect to our in- tercourse . Of my husband I have no fear . I am pained - you need not believe me if you like I am pained that I should have been the occasion of any words spoken in heat between you and your son . I am also ...
... mean with respect to our in- tercourse . Of my husband I have no fear . I am pained - you need not believe me if you like I am pained that I should have been the occasion of any words spoken in heat between you and your son . I am also ...
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... ' Your cook , you mean . ' ' Well our cook is a well - bred person who , though she could not veil the curiosity in her eyes , refused to give it utterance in words . I took pity on her curiosity and told her who I 72 PERPLEXITY .
... ' Your cook , you mean . ' ' Well our cook is a well - bred person who , though she could not veil the curiosity in her eyes , refused to give it utterance in words . I took pity on her curiosity and told her who I 72 PERPLEXITY .
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... mean to be neither frozen , menaced , nor subdued , and I was resolved she should know my determination . Various little needle - like projectiles hurled from behind the batteries of her remarks on Don Quixote de- termined me 76 PERPLEXITY ...
... mean to be neither frozen , menaced , nor subdued , and I was resolved she should know my determination . Various little needle - like projectiles hurled from behind the batteries of her remarks on Don Quixote de- termined me 76 PERPLEXITY ...
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Página 8 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it.
Página 19 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 90 - Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed. One may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house, and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
Página 85 - As fills a father's eyes with light; And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Upon his heart, that he at last Must needs express his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other, To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty 670 At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.