Historic Girlhoods, Volum 1

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G. W. Jacobs, 1910 - 302 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 74 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Pàgina 37 - to a royal city to tell Robert of Baudricourt to send me to the Dauphin, but he cares not for me or for my words. Nevertheless, before mid-Lent, I must be with the Dauphin, though I have to wear my legs down to my knees. No one in the world, neither kings, nor dukes, nor king of Scotland's daughter, nor...
Pàgina 143 - What signifies talking so much about an accident? The wig is wet, to be sure; and the wig was a good wig, to be sure; but its of no use to speak of it any more; because what's done can't be undone.
Pàgina 10 - His right hand and made the sign of the cross over her, as she had seen the Bishop do when he gave his people his blessing.
Pàgina 38 - I have come to you on a message from God, to bring help to you and to your kingdom.
Pàgina 75 - Come down from that, my child," said he, " that is no place for you." Then he gently told her all; and gladly did poor Jane rise and quit her hateful office.
Pàgina 34 - Philippe, her old friend, was much in love with her and asked her to marry him. She was very fond of him...
Pàgina 104 - Pocahontas, although she longed to possess this wonderful " path-teller," shook her head. " Not so, Caii-co-rouse," she said, "if it should be seen by my tribesmen, or even by my father, the chief, I should but be as dead to them ; for they would know that I had warned you whom they have sworn to kill, and so would they kill me also. Stay not to parley, my father, but be gone at once.
Pàgina 127 - II, who became Duke in 1 747 and died in 1751. The Duke was a general in the army of Frederick the Great of Prussia, and his father, Leopold I, is credited with the creation of Frederick's incomparable infantry.
Pàgina 103 - My daughter," he said kindly, "you have again saved my life, coming alone, and at risk of your own young life through the irksome woods and in this gloomy night to admonish me. Take this, I pray you, from me, and let it always tell you of the love of Captain Smith.

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