Shrewsbury: A Romance, Volums 1-2B. Tauchnitz, 1898 |
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Pàgina 233 - You may judge of my astonishment at his effrontery, in accusing you. You are, I trust, too fully convinced of the entire confidence which I place in you, to imagine that such an accusation has made any impression on me, or that if it had, I should have sent you this paper.
Pàgina 237 - Ferguson, while his loathsome tyranny could have been shaken off by application to the nearest magistrate and a substantial reward secured besides, or by the simple expedient of running away. Little Mary Ferguson shows a far braver spirit when she urges : ' Carry no more messages. Be sneak and spy no longer. Cease to put your head in a noose to serve rogues
Pàgina 131 - ... Wellwood's good graces — for who could tell what might be the result of this commencement of mutual acquaintance ? Laura Ainslie had seen and pronounced upon them, already. " The youngest is a cub with a sulky temper," she had said ; " and as for the other, he brought to my mind a saying of our cooks, ' he looks as if butter would not melt in his mouth, but cheese would not choke him.
Pàgina 13 - THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF. A ROMANCE. BY STANLEY J. WEYMAN, AUTHOR OF " A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE," ETC, With Frontispiece and Vignette by Charles Kerr. 12mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25. " A delightful volume . . . one of the brightest, briskest tales I have met with for a long time. Dealing with the Eve of St. Bartholomew it portrays that night of horror from a point entirely new, and, we may add...
Pàgina 263 - Majesty and these gentlemen, hear me state, also before them, that there is not a word of truth in what you say.
Pàgina 233 - ... astonishment at his effrontery, in accusing you. You are, I trust, too fully convinced of the entire confidence which I place in you, to imagine that such an accusation has made any impression on me, or that if it had, I should have sent you this paper. You will observe the sincerity of this honest man, who only accuses those in my service, and not one of his own party.
Pàgina 66 - ... had no guinea, and knew not where to get one; though I would not go so far as to say that, in the frame of mind in which I then was, it would have saved me. But in the article of parting, and when the garden fence already rose between us, yet each remained plain to the other by the light of the moon which had risen, Dorinda on a sudden raised her hands, and holding her cloak from her, stood and looked at me an instant in the most ravishing...
Pàgina 244 - Ay, you drab," my lady continued, with cruel exultation, "I'll see you beat hemp yet! and your shoulders smarting!" "May God forgive you!" cried the waiting-woman, fighting with her rage. "He may or He may not!" said the dreadful old lady, coolly turning to go in. "Anyway, your score won't stand for much in the sum, my girl.
Pàgina 134 - ... but never a beggar. In gratitude for which, and both those good men being now dead, I here conjoin the names of Mr. Timothy Brome, of Fleet Street, newsmonger and author, whose sharp tongue and morose manners cloaked a hundred benefactions; and of Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, my honoured patron, who never gave but his smile doubled the gift which his humanity dictated.