A Perilous SecretChatto & Windus, 1904 - 247 páginas The young man had his coat off by which you might infer it was very hot; but no it was a keen October day and an east wind sweeping down the river. The coat was wrapped tightly round the little girl so that only her fair face with blue eyes and golden hair peeped out; and the young father sat in his shirt sleeves looking down on her with a loving but anxious look. |
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12 Illustrations A. B. GROSART asked Bartley's beautiful began Ben Burnley better bracelet Braham buckram Burnley CHARLES READE child Clifford Hall cloth extra cloth limp coal Colonel Clifford colour cried Crown 8vo daughter dear Demy 8vo detective door Dun Cow Easton eyes face farm father Fcap fellow Fitzroy flat back Frontispiece gave gentleman gilt top girl Grace Hope hand happy head heard heart honour Hope's illustrated boards John Baker Julia Clifford lady looked Lucy marry Mary Bartley Mary's Master miners Miss Bartley Miss Clifford never Novels nurse pale papa Peg Woffington Percy picture boards picture cloth poor Portrait Post 8vo Robert Bartley Secret Stories strange sure sweet tell there's thing told took turned villain voice walked Walter Clifford whilst wife William Hope woman word young
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Página 66 - cried Percy, turning green. Walter had no mercy. " I heard her say once she could make any man love her if she chose." " So she could," said Percy ruefully. " She made me. I had an awful p — p — prejudice against her, but there was no resisting." "Then don't subject me to such a trial. Stick to her like a man." " So I will ; b — but it is am — m — mortifying position. I'ma man of family. We came in with the C — Conquest, and are respected in our c — county ; and here I have to meet...
Página 164 - APOLOGIES. WE must now describe the place to which Hope conducted his daughter, and please do not skip our little description. It is true that some of our gifted contemporaries paint Italian scenery at prodigious length a propos de bottes, and others show in many pages that the rocks and the sea are picturesque objects, even when irrelevant. True, that others gild the ' evening clouds and the western horizon merely to please the horizon and the clouds. But we hold with Pope that " The proper study...
Página 164 - Marmion,' where the castle at eventide, its yellow lustre, its drooping banner, its mailclad warders reflecting the western blaze, the tramp of the sentinel, and his low hummed song, are flung on paper with the broad and telling touch of Rubens, not from an irrelevant admiration of old castles and the setting sun, but because the human figures of the story are riding up to that sun-gilt castle to make it a scene of great words and deeds. Even so, though on a much humbler scale, we describe Hope's...
Página 163 - Then he burst forth into singing. Nobody stammers when he sings. " Shall I, wasting in despair, Sigh because a woman's fair? Shall my cheeks grow pale with care Because another's rosy are? If she be not kind to me, What care I how fair she be...
Página 93 - Miss Mary tried to obey her, but Walter rushed in impetuously, pale, worn, agitated, yet enraptured at the first sight of her, and Mary threw herself round his neck in a moment, and he clasped her fluttering bosom to his beating heart, and this was the natural result of the restraint they had put upon a passionate affection: for what says the dramatist Destouches, improving upon Horace, so that in England his immortal line is given to Moliere. " Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop.