Richard Hurdis: A Tale of AlabamaRedfield, 1855 - Počet stran: 403 |
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Strana 8
... least easy to keep . Your friend is vain on your or on his own - which is much the most likely - and must blab , with even slighter precautions than were taken by the barber of King Midas . Even if he honestly keeps your secret , what ...
... least easy to keep . Your friend is vain on your or on his own - which is much the most likely - and must blab , with even slighter precautions than were taken by the barber of King Midas . Even if he honestly keeps your secret , what ...
Strana 14
... least . The impulses of the latter , to our minds , are worth any day all the mercantile wealth of the former ; and that we are sincere in this opinion may be fairly inferred from the pref- erence which the forester will always show for ...
... least . The impulses of the latter , to our minds , are worth any day all the mercantile wealth of the former ; and that we are sincere in this opinion may be fairly inferred from the pref- erence which the forester will always show for ...
Strana 15
... least until my money was all gone , and then to take service on shares with some planter who had land and needed the help of one like myself , was all my secret . I had heard of the Chickasaw Bluffs , and of the still more recent Choc ...
... least until my money was all gone , and then to take service on shares with some planter who had land and needed the help of one like myself , was all my secret . I had heard of the Chickasaw Bluffs , and of the still more recent Choc ...
Strana 23
... least , I will not complain of them . " 66 Oh , be not so proud , Richard ! be not so proud ! " she re- plied earnestly ; and her long white fingers rested upon my wrist for an instant , and were as instantly withdrawn . But that one ...
... least , I will not complain of them . " 66 Oh , be not so proud , Richard ! be not so proud ! " she re- plied earnestly ; and her long white fingers rested upon my wrist for an instant , and were as instantly withdrawn . But that one ...
Strana 39
... least of all why recount them to you ? I will not . " " Nor do I wish - nor would I hear them , Richard , " she replied promptly , though gently . I saw the eyes of John Hurdis brighten , and my soul felt full of bitterness . " What ...
... least of all why recount them to you ? I will not . " " Nor do I wish - nor would I hear them , Richard , " she replied promptly , though gently . I saw the eyes of John Hurdis brighten , and my soul felt full of bitterness . " What ...
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Strana 162 - How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Strana 102 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Strana 350 - He's a bad surgeon that for pity spares The part corrupted till the gangrene spread, And all the body perish. He that's merciful Unto the bad is cruel to the good.
Strana 156 - O'er all his heart shall Taste and Beauty sway ! Free on the sunny slope, or winding shore, With hermit steps to wander and adore!
Strana 11 - Hurdis] during my early wanderings in that then wild country. The crimes here recorded were then actually in progress of commission; and some of my scenes and several of my persons, were sketched from the best local authorities.
Strana 248 - Dare not adventure on the stubborne pray, Ne byte before, but rome from place to place To get a snatch when turned is his face.
Strana 120 - ... the six mounted men; and, in spite of the strenuous efforts to shake him off, stuck on like the old man of the sea on the shoulders of Sinbad the sailor. Of those who seemed likely to succeed a majority wore only shirt and trowsers; though some of these had a scarlet band tied round the right wrist, for what purpose we cannot say. It also appears that the commissioners opened two sets of books, one for themselves and one for the public.
Strana 369 - To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves ! Enter MYRRHA.
Strana 6 - Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, BY JS REDFIELD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.
Strana 65 - That glowed in generous blood, and had no care, And little thought of the future — followed him; — Some perch'd on gallant steeds, others, more slow, The infants and the matrons of the flock, In coach and jersey, — but all moving on To the new land of promise, full of dreams Of western riches, Mississippi-mad ! Then came the hands, some forty-five or more, Their moderate wealth...