SidneyHoughton, Mifflin, 1894 - 429 pàgines |
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Alan Crossan Alan's anger answered antimacassar asked aunt Sally baize beautiful began believe breath comfort course cried dark Davids dear death declared doctor door Eliza Eternal eyes face father fear felt forget frowned garden girl glad grief hand happy head heart hope impatient Jennings John Paul Katherine Townsend knew laughed Lee's lips live Liza looked Major Lee major's marriage marry mean Mercer mind misery Miss Sally Miss Townsend morphine Mortimer Lee mother ness never once pain parlor Paul's perhaps pity Red Lane Robert Steele Sally Lee Sally's Scarlett seemed selfishness shook Sidney Sidney Lee Sidney's silence smiled soul spoke Steele's stood strange sunshine suppose sure talk tears tell thing thought told toll-house trembling tremulous turned voice waited walk window wish wonder words
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Pàgina 277 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Pàgina 207 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Pàgina 262 - Ma visto poi c' ascendere a quel segnio Propio valor non è c' apra la via, Perdon domanda la mie colpa ria, E del fallir più saggio ognior divegnio. E veggio ben com' erra, s' alcun crede La grazia, che da voi divina piove, Pareggi Г opra mía caduca e frale.
Pàgina 3 - ... color of his eyes, and he was almost as powerless to change the one as the other. But when he came to observe, curiously, though with sympathy, Robert Steele's pain, he began to be half ashamed of himself, because he had never suffered, and never very greatly cared about anything. "Odd...
Pàgina 55 - ... infidelity ; it was his opinion that dogma in negation was as unphilosophical as the dogmatic assertions of theology. He had only shown his daughter certain terrible facts, in a terrible world, and then subtly guided her inference. He had been careful to point out to her the falsehoods, and willful blindnesses, and astonishing egotism of Christianity, and with this to present the calm reasonableness of law. That Christians called Law God, Sidney knew ; but what they felt when they said God was...
Pàgina 24 - ... Sidney's eyes, although he did not look at her, and he almost forgave her Von Hartmann ; or rather, he almost forgave the major, who was responsible for Von Hartmann. The reality of Alan's own sorrow revealed his unconscious flippancy when he once told Mrs. Paul that Major Lee's grief of twenty- two years was like a fly in amber : it might be perfect, but it had no vitality. He could not let Miss Sally speak of his mother again. " Do you know Katherine Townsend ? " he said to Sidney, in a changed...
Pàgina 286 - Steele," — he started, the tone was so like her brother's, — " pray do not be disturbed. Pray do not give it another thought." " I honor you above any woman I have ever known ; your goodness makes it easier to believe in God's goodness. But I could not deceive you ; I could not let you think I had given you what it is not in my weak, miserable nature to give to any one, — love such as you ought to receive. But take all I can give, Miss Lee ; take my life, and loyalty, and gratitude ; let things...
Pàgina 54 - ... her. To show her how to live, he was content to bear life. If the sight of his enduring pain could save her from pain, it was enough. Sidney, he had said, was to be taught to seek for truth ; to do without illusions ; to look the facts of life full in the face. She was to judge, emotionally, first, whether it was probable that there was a beneficent and all-powerful Being in a world which held at the same time Love and Death ; and next, with inexorable logic, she was to find a universe of law,...
Pàgina 392 - Creator and Preserver of all mankind, Giver of all spiritual grace " — and Sidney knelt with the rest, but with a certain terror.