The Novels of Charles Lever: The fortunes of Glencore

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Downey and Company, 1898
 

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الصفحة 24 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
الصفحة 24 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene, Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
الصفحة 211 - ... others show the white caves, as they are called, of that pure marble which has made the name of the spot famous throughout Europe. High in the mountain sides, escarped amidst rocks, and zig-zagging over many a dangerous gorge and deep abyss, are the rough roads trodden by the weary oxen — trailing along their massive loads, and straining their stout chests to drag the great white blocks of glittering stone. Far down below, crossed and re-crossed by splashing torrents, sprinkled with the spray...
الصفحة 198 - Stubber?' asked he, at length. ' September, Altezza,' was the short reply. ' Per Bacco ! so it is ; and in this very month we were to have been in Bohemia with the Archduke Stephen — the best shooting in all Europe, and the largest stock of pheasants in the whole world, perhaps; and I, that love...
الصفحة 150 - The transgressions against good breeding — the " gaucheries " of manner — the solecisms in dress, language, or demeanour, do indeed meet with sharp reproof and cutting sarcasm ; but in recompense for such severity, how gently do they deal with graver offences. For the felonies they can always discover " the attenuating circumstances;" for the petty larcenies of fashion they have nothing but whipcord.
الصفحة 213 - Greppi was rarely heard in Carrara. His strict retirement had not, however, exempted him from the jealous suspicions of the authorities ; on the contrary, the seeming mystery of his life had sharpened their curiosity and aroused their zeal; and more than once was he summoned to the Prefecture to answer some frivolous questions about his passport or his means of subsistence. It was on one of these errands that he stood one morning in the ante-chamber of the Podesta's court, awaiting his turn to be...
الصفحة 231 - While he spoke with a degree of earnestness that indicated sincerity, there was something in the expression of his eye, — a half malicious drollery in its twinkle — that made it exceedingly difficult to say whether his words were uttered in honesty of purpose, or in mere mockery and derision. Whether Stubber rightly understood their import is more than we are able to say ; but it is very probable that he was with all his shrewdness, mystified by one" whose nature was a puzzle to himself. " Let...
الصفحة xiv - If in the world of well-bred life the incidents and events be fewer, because the friction is less than in the classes where vicissitudes of fortune are more frequent, the play of passion, the moods of temper, and the changeful varieties of nature are often very strongly developed, shadowed and screened though they be by the polished conventionalities of society. To trace and mark these has long constituted one of the pleasures of my life...
الصفحة 64 - Yes, Excellenz," said Fritz, in a voice of broken accentuation. "I slept badly," continued his master, in the same complaining tone. "The sea beat so heavily against the rocks, and the eternal plash, plash, all night irritated and worried me. Are you giving me the right tincture? " "Yes, Excelleuz,

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