Lady Baby: A Novel, Svazek 2Bernard Tauchnitz, 1890 - Počet stran: 294 |
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Adam Agnes Ajax amber silk answer asked aunt began believe Bless my soul boot broken cairn Captain John Carbury Carbury's corner course cried curiosity daresay dogcart door dropped drowned Euphrosyne's exactly eyes face façon de parler felt fingers Floundershayle flowers friends gazed glance going granite grey Gullyscoombe hand head heard idea knew Lady Baby Lady Baby's Lady Euphro Lady Euphrosyne laugh leather letter lips look Lord Germaine Lord Kippen Lord Kippendale lordship Maud's mean mend mind mines minute Miss Epperton Molly never Nicky night Nolesworth North Sea once papa perhaps play polo pony question Reid ruin Samuel Foote seemed shoemaker silence Sir Peter smile sort speak stand staring stood straight suddenly suppose sure Swan's copper tears tell thing thought to-day to-night turned verbena wait wall week words Wyndhurst
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Strana 70 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...
Strana 20 - BECAUSE I breathe not love to every one, Nor do not use set colours for to wear, Nor nourish special locks of vowed hair, Nor give each speech a full point of a groan, The courtly nymphs, acquainted with the moan Of them, who in their lips love's standard bear: 'What, he?' say they of me, 'now I dare swear, He cannot love; no, no, let him alone.
Strana 55 - Being your slave , what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do , till you require.
Strana 241 - My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease ; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except. Past cure I am, now reason is past care, And frantic-mad...
Strana 147 - LADY BABY. CHAPTER XXI. THE PLEDGE. ' But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And life is thorny and youth is vain." THE discovery that Sir Peter was rich and that she was poor had come upon Lady Baby like a revelation. When she had spoken of the news of the trouble being certain to bring him back, she had not in her own mind defined the trouble as being simply pecuniary. Money was a very formless conception to her, for she had never been in want of it. She had merely argued that because something...
Strana 212 - ... wooden walls of the big kennels, now empty and deserted of all save Brenda and Fulda the two foxhound puppies, of whom the elder had played so critical a part on Lady Baby's seventeenth birthday. The two dogs came bounding towards her, each describing nothing but one big wriggle from the tip of his tail to the point of his nose, and Lady Baby knelt down on the ground between them, and sobbed at last freely, to the undisguised perplexity of those well - meaning but foolish animals.
Strana 68 - I want to say ; it is nothing particular," he stammered, rosy-red now as a schoolgirl, and tugging away at an unhappy button,—" at least it is only that I — no, that you are the most beautiful and the most perfect woman in the world, and that I love you more than all the rest of the world put together, and that you — no, that I " " Hush ! " said Maud, sharply turning her head, " what is that 1 " " Nothing ; I suppose you want to put me off again ? " "No, I don't; indeed I don't; but there is...