Brownlows, المجلد 2;المجلد 5 |
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الصفحة 89 - I said," said Mr Brownlow ; and, after the habit of guilty men, he began immediately to defend himself. " I trust," he said, unconsciously following the old precedent, " that I have a right to do what I like with my own.
الصفحة 17 - Paradise ; and be himself once in his life had been in Arcadia too. But in the midst of this exquisite little poem one shrill discord of fact was what most struck the father's ear — was it Jack ? Jack ! — he who was prudence itself — too prudent, even so far as words went, for Mr Brownlow's simple education and habits. And, good heavens ! the little neighbour, the little bright face at the window which had won upon them all with its sweet friendly looks ! Mr Brownlow was a man and not sentimental,...
الصفحة 51 - And who is it in this house that plots against the innocent?" said Mrs Fennell, with trembling rage. " Take you care what you say to them that's your mistress, and more than your mistress. You're old, and you'd find it harder than you think to get another home like this. Go and bring me the things I told you of. You've got the money. If it wasn't for curiosity and the keyhole you'd been gone before now.
الصفحة 26 - ... the trifling pleasant events by which they had come to this present point And then all at once, with a start, he came back to their last meeting, which had been the sweetest of all, and upon which hard fate, in the shape of Mr. Brownlow, had so solemnly looked in. Poor Jack! it was the first time anything of the kind had ever happened to him. He had gone through a little flirtation now and then before, no doubt, as is the common fate of man; but as for any serious crisis, any terrible complication...
الصفحة 197 - Really, Mr. Carlyle,' replied my friend, 'you are the last man in the world from whom I should have expected such an observation. Look at your own book on Cromwell...
الصفحة 43 - ... found expression in this outburst. She was not to see him to-night, nor perhaps ever again. And she had been seeing him most days and most evenings, always by chance, with a sweet unexpectedness which made the expectation always the dearer. When that was taken out of her life, how grey it became all in a moment. And then Mr Brownlow had presumed to scold her, to blame her for what she had been doing, she whom nobody ever blamed, and to talk as if she sought amusement at the cost of* better things.
الصفحة 48 - TiR one o'clock ! It was but ten o'clock then. No doubt it might be some of her foolish complaints, some of the grievances she was constantly accumulating ; or, on the other hand, it might be Mr Brownlow drew his curtain aside for a minute, and he saw that young Powys was sitting at his usual desk. The young man had fallen back again into the cloud from which he had seemed to be delivered at the time of his visit to Brownlows. He was not working at that moment ; he was leaning his head on his hand,...
الصفحة 3 - Then, as was to be expected, a certain surprise and painful enlightenment — such as everybody has to encounter, more or less, who are noticed by their social superiors — came upon the young man. It was all a caprice, then, only momentary and entirely without consequences, which had introduced him to Mr Brownlow's table and his daughter. He belonged to a different world, and it was vain to think that the other world would ever open to him. He was too unimportant even to be kept at a distance....
الصفحة 34 - ... attendant, whose life was devoted to her. " But, bless you, she likes it," he said in confidence to his friends, when he took the palpitating animal to her stable at the Green Man. "Nothing she likes better, though he's took it out of her this morning, he have. I reckon the governor have been a-taking it out of 'im.
الصفحة 45 - Thus she concealed her weakness with a mild hopefulness, knowing no more what results they were to bring about, what unknown wonders would come out of them, than did the little creature by her side, whose thoughts were bounded by the narrow circle which centred in Mr John. Pamela was thinking, where was he now ? was he thinking of her ? was he angry because it was through her he was suffering...