The Girl He Married: a NovelGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1870 - 443 pages |
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Page 55 - I fear, too early : for my mind misgives, Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels...
Page 247 - There is a tale about these reverend rocks, A sad tradition of unhappy love, And sorrows borne and ended, long ago, When over these fair vales the savage sought His game in the thick woods. There was a maid, The fairest of the Indian maids, bright-eyed, With wealth of raven tresses, a light form, And a gay heart.
Page 241 - I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my strong hold : my God, in him will I trust.
Page 17 - Through wood and stream and field and hill and Ocean A quickening life from the Earth's heart has burst, As it has ever done, with change and motion From the great morning of the world when first God dawned on Chaos; in its...
Page 268 - As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
Page 30 - I had stories to tell ; but death has closed the long dark avenue upon loves and friendships, and I look at them as through the grated door of a burial-place filled with monuments of those who were once dear to me, with no insincere wish that it may open for me at no distant period, provided such be the will of God.
Page 199 - Cheatwood rushed back through the fields towards the railway, in the hope of being soon able to put as great a distance as possible between himself and the scene of this new and most unexpected catastrophe.
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Page 12 - In the morning of our days, when the senses are unworn and tender, when the whole man is awake in every part, and the gloss of novelty fresh upon all the objects that surround us, how lively at that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate the judgments we form of things?
Page 330 - This will surprise, and yet nothing is more simple; the two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other.