Dene Hollow: A Novel

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Macmillan, 1903 - 466 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 59 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Pàgina 367 - Aspettare e non venire, Stare in letto, e non dormire, Servire e non gradire, Son tre cose dtfar morire. Ital. Prov.— • " To expect one who does not come — to lie in bed and not to sleep — to serve and not to be advanced, are three things enough to kill a man.
Pàgina 389 - Mr. Otto; my master's equal to that once in a way yet; though I think it'll be the last time he'll ever attempt it," resumed Gander, disregarding the remark about the snow. "'Twas that awful upset just as the company was arriving. It shook him frightful.
Pàgina 237 - Two peas never were more alike than Jarvis Clanwaring and his mother: not a bit of the Clanwaring was there about him in looks. Tall, lean, dark, he had the same thin compressed lips as hers, the shifty black eyes. His black moustache was fierce, even for a soldier, very fierce indeed for those days when such an adornment was uncommon, and he had altogether a worn, dissipated air.
Pàgina 77 - ... That's true," said Geoffry, a great sadness in his good-natured blue eyes. " Nobody was more sorry for poor Granny Barber than I was. It was a hard case : I told my father so. But he did not see it in the same light." Old Mr. Arde nodded, and then shook his head from side to side, as if in strong condemnation. " You think my father did wrong, I see, sir.
Pàgina 349 - Do you know anything of a man named Pale ? " "Pale the money-lender? Yes, I know him." " Had transactions with him yourself, perhaps ? " went on Jarvis. " Never. Not in the way you mean. Why do you ask about him ? " " I want you to tell me, if you can, whether, or not, he is a man whose discretion may be depended on. Is he one who would keep a client's counsel ? — or would he go blabbing of business to other people ? " " I should think his discretion might be entirely depended on. It is the impression...

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