The Lairds of Fife ...Constable & Company, 1828 - 920 страница |
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... weeks Mrs Fife's activity - for by that title we must sometimes name her ever restless spirit of curiosity - was pretty well em- ployed in secretly invading the history of those who , under no such apprehensions , ventured to intrude ...
... weeks Mrs Fife's activity - for by that title we must sometimes name her ever restless spirit of curiosity - was pretty well em- ployed in secretly invading the history of those who , under no such apprehensions , ventured to intrude ...
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... week I got it , " cried Miss Brown ; " but you see I always wear it , and always maintain it to be in the right , for it certainly never goes wrong . " " We have gone wrong to - day , however , my dear , " returned Lady Methodical ...
... week I got it , " cried Miss Brown ; " but you see I always wear it , and always maintain it to be in the right , for it certainly never goes wrong . " " We have gone wrong to - day , however , my dear , " returned Lady Methodical ...
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... week to pass a month with me . aunt , poor body , likes so much to see you visit about , before you become , as she says , laid up like her ; and then she has good old Mrs Caretake to look after her — a fit name for such a fit nurse ...
... week to pass a month with me . aunt , poor body , likes so much to see you visit about , before you become , as she says , laid up like her ; and then she has good old Mrs Caretake to look after her — a fit name for such a fit nurse ...
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... the story of Mr Charles Suttie's pretending to lose himself , and personi- fying his own valet for a week ; and then a more gentle one of appeal to Lady Methodical , which was answered by , " Perhaps you may have ob- THE LAIRDS OF FIFE .
... the story of Mr Charles Suttie's pretending to lose himself , and personi- fying his own valet for a week ; and then a more gentle one of appeal to Lady Methodical , which was answered by , " Perhaps you may have ob- THE LAIRDS OF FIFE .
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" The whole of them are coming here some day next week , " returned Mrs Lumsdaine softly . " Well , but although - only consider , my dear , our ancient friendship . " But this was said less earnestly ; and the res- pective members of ...
" The whole of them are coming here some day next week , " returned Mrs Lumsdaine softly . " Well , but although - only consider , my dear , our ancient friendship . " But this was said less earnestly ; and the res- pective members of ...
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agreeable Akenside amongst answer aunt began better body called carriage Cecilia clack cold Colonel Brown compliments crasy cried Miss cried Mrs Fife daughter dear Miss Leslie dear Mrs Fife dexterity dinner door Dudd Edmonstones father favour Fife-hall Fife's Fifeshire friends game at chess gentleman Gregory happy hear heard Hochytoch honour hope Horn Regular Hyndford intend invitation Jemima John Lady Methodical lady's laugh look Lord Aloof Lums Lumsdaine's M'Pech Ma'am Madam Mademoiselle Antoinette Madrake Madrake's Marchmont Maringle mean mind Miss Brown Miss Kicklecackle Miss M'Tavish Monotony morning never night o'clock observed occasion odd trick once papa party person play poor pray pretended pretty racter rake rest returned seat seems sometimes sort Squeake suppose talk taste tell thing thought tion uncon voice vomitory Vonpepper and M'Ginger wish wonder young lady
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Страница 74 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones That ebb and flow by the moon.
Страница 14 - And as an owl that in a barn Sees a mouse creeping in the corn, Sits still, and shuts his round blue eyes As if he slept, until he spies The little beast within his reach, Then starts, and seizes on the wretch...
Страница 260 - ... may be invigorated, or their efforts renewed, by subsequent considerations. The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure ; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul ; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.