The Writings of Mrs. Humphry Ward: The testing of Diana MalloryHoughton Mifflin, 1910 |
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Alicia Drake asked Barbadoes Barton beauty Beechcote beside Birch Bobbie breath Broadstone Brookshire cheeks colour companion course cousin cried daugh dear Diana Doctor door doubt drawing-room dress drew Dunscombe Eaton Square eyes face Fanny Merton Fanny's father feeling felt Ferrier Ferrierites Fotheringham garden gave girl girl's hand head heart Hugh Roughsedge Juliet Sparling kissed knew Lady Lucy Lady Lucy's Lady Niton Lankester laughed letter lips Lord Philip marry Meanwhile mind Miss Drake Miss Mallory Miss Merton morning morphia mother Muriel Colwood never night Oliver Marsham Oliver's once pain pale papa party passion paused politics poor Portofino reply rose seemed shook silence Sir James Chide smile stood suddenly suppose talk Tallyn tears tell thing thought tion told took turned Vavasours Vicar village voice walked week woman words young
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الصفحة 445 - The master mouth has no more than before. The owner, methinks, is like Ocnus in the fable, who is perpetually winding a rope of hay, and an ass at the end perpetually eating it. Out of these inconveniences arises naturally one more, which is, that no greatness can be satisfied or contented with...
الصفحة 230 - No one knows what the effect may be upon her.' And with a sudden rush of passion through the blood, he seemed to hold her once more in his arms, he felt the warmth of her cheek on his ; all her fresh and fragrant youth was present to him, the love in her voice, and in her proud eyes. He turned away, threw himself into a chair, and buried his face in his hands. Sir James looked down upon him. Instead of sympathy, there was a positive lightening in the elder man's face, — a gleam of satisfaction....
الصفحة 2 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
الصفحة 572 - It is very kind of you to come and see me," she said, mechanically. " Will you sit down ?" Diana gazed at her, with the childish short-sighted pucker of the brow that Lady Lucy remembered well. Then she came closer, still holding Lady Lucy's hand. " Sir James thought I might come,
الصفحة 445 - Out of these inconveniences arises naturally one more, which is, that no greatness can be satisfied or contented with itself: still, if it could mount up a little higher, it would be happy ; if it could gain but that point, it would obtain all its desires ; but yet at last, when it is got up to the very top of the...
الصفحة 337 - Barton allowed the slightest glint of a smile to show itself for an instant. The speaker — Roland Lankester — was one of his few weaknesses. But the frown returned. He strolled along with his hands in his pockets and his eyes on the ground; his silence was the silence of one in whom the fire was hot. "Most disappointing — all through!" said McEwart, with emphasis. "The facts wrongly chosen — the argument absurd. It'll take all the heart out of our fellows in the country." Marsham looked up....