The life of a beauty, by the author of 'The jilt'. |
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... fellows . How her heart beat as she gazed at the white lace frock open behind to show the white silk slip , the broad white satin sash , the white kid shoes , the pearl necklace , brooch , and bracelets which her mother had sent up for ...
... fellows . How her heart beat as she gazed at the white lace frock open behind to show the white silk slip , the broad white satin sash , the white kid shoes , the pearl necklace , brooch , and bracelets which her mother had sent up for ...
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... fellow , " he said , addressing himself to Mr. Luxmore , " come , you're the man to set them going ; do see about it — I'm sure you've sate there quite long enough . " " I don't think so , " laughed Mr. Luxmore ; VOL . I. D " I'm quite ...
... fellow , " he said , addressing himself to Mr. Luxmore , " come , you're the man to set them going ; do see about it — I'm sure you've sate there quite long enough . " " I don't think so , " laughed Mr. Luxmore ; VOL . I. D " I'm quite ...
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... fellow ! ) in the great advan- tages of wealth . A light summer shower had laid the dust and freshened the bright green trees ; the drive through the exquisite forest was fragrant with opening buds , and vocal with the hymeneal songs of ...
... fellow ! ) in the great advan- tages of wealth . A light summer shower had laid the dust and freshened the bright green trees ; the drive through the exquisite forest was fragrant with opening buds , and vocal with the hymeneal songs of ...
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Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies. it were on one leg very much shorter than its fellow , formed as striking a contrast in all external charms to the Adonis of the day , as that very vain person could desire . To a woman of heart and feeling ...
Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies. it were on one leg very much shorter than its fellow , formed as striking a contrast in all external charms to the Adonis of the day , as that very vain person could desire . To a woman of heart and feeling ...
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... had the vain , the cunning , and the ambitious Robina listened by the summer twilight to the stories thus told by her school - fellows of their own clandestine , or some elder sister's acknow- ledged love THE DECLARATION . 63.
... had the vain , the cunning , and the ambitious Robina listened by the summer twilight to the stories thus told by her school - fellows of their own clandestine , or some elder sister's acknow- ledged love THE DECLARATION . 63.
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admiration Angelina anguish arms auld Leddy Beenie believe bosom breakfast canna Captain CHAPTER charms cheek child cold Colonel Fitzgeorge comfort coquette curricle daugh daughter dear delight devoted door Dougal dreadful dress Duke of Dartmoor Dunkeld e'en Eva Morris Eva's eyes face fancy father fear feel felt Fichu fond gaze George Darnly Gillespie girl Glenlonely Grace Grinlay hair hand happy head heart heartless honour hope hour husband knew Lady Emmeline Lady Mc.Grigor lassie laugh lips looked lover Luxmore's madam mair mamma Marmaduke Mc.Quibble mind Miranda miserable Miss Luxmore Miss Mc Miss Mc.Dougal Miss Mc.Prudie Miss Twitch mother never nurse odious pale passion poor Eva poor Luxmore Robina rose seemed Shoozie Sir Davie Sir Grigor Mc.Grigor smile Southron sure taste tears thought Trimmer vanity watch weel weep wife wish woman young
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197 페이지 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
124 페이지 - — what a different sound That word had in my youthful ears ! And how, each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears ! When first our scanty years are told, It seems like pastime to grow old ; And, as Youth counts the shining links, That Time around him binds so fast, Pleased with the task, he little thinks How hard that chain will press at last. Vain was the man, and false as vain, Who said...
116 페이지 - ... yield ; and who, as she went on, living with Burton, confirmed, as if intuitively, (for the chances are, she had never read them,) the merit of those lines of the immortal POPE, which bid the wife be one — " Who never answers till her husband cools ; And, if she rules him, never shews she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, And has her humour most when she obeys.
281 페이지 - ... evil, blameless, or neutral, may not the authorized and legalized tenderness have been deeper and more enduring, the post-nuptial kiss more fervent and pure ? I know not, but I exert the common privilege of my countrymen, and guess. It has been said that love begins with the first sigh and ends with the first permitted kiss. I do not go quite so far as this cold maxim in my code of laws for the regulation of ante-nuptial behaviour, but I am a warm advocate, upon principle, for a very restrained...
100 페이지 - Love, the delicate, devoted love woman should glory to inspire, as the old saying has it, " begins with the first sigh, and ends with the first kiss ;