A great sensation, Volum 2Hurst&Blackett, 1862 |
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Pàgina 1
... Grahame's house . Time : Two o'clock p.m. on the wedding - day . Interlocutors : The Dowager Lady Ravens- dale , Lord Sevenoaks , and Sir John Cam- pion . Distant echo of the friendly chorus : " Boo - hoo ! " Sir John Campion . " What ...
... Grahame's house . Time : Two o'clock p.m. on the wedding - day . Interlocutors : The Dowager Lady Ravens- dale , Lord Sevenoaks , and Sir John Cam- pion . Distant echo of the friendly chorus : " Boo - hoo ! " Sir John Campion . " What ...
Pàgina 25
... Grahame made it up . " Edgar . " I wish you wouldn't be so impetuous ; you'll get yourself into serious trouble some day . I have a right to advise you on the subject , for I have so lately experienced the temptation myself : it was by ...
... Grahame made it up . " Edgar . " I wish you wouldn't be so impetuous ; you'll get yourself into serious trouble some day . I have a right to advise you on the subject , for I have so lately experienced the temptation myself : it was by ...
Pàgina 30
... Grahame had shaken off the slapping fine woman ; that Lord Rossden's butler had not since " heard her ladyship asking of them ; " and that Mr. Grahame had be- come more or less reconciled to everything except the bluffness of Mrs ...
... Grahame had shaken off the slapping fine woman ; that Lord Rossden's butler had not since " heard her ladyship asking of them ; " and that Mr. Grahame had be- come more or less reconciled to everything except the bluffness of Mrs ...
Pàgina 31
... Grahame , after one season's experience , should have made the most of her advantages , was to be expected . The woman who could make her daugh- ter break off her marriage with a man she loved , influencing her so that she did not ...
... Grahame , after one season's experience , should have made the most of her advantages , was to be expected . The woman who could make her daugh- ter break off her marriage with a man she loved , influencing her so that she did not ...
Pàgina 32
... tops . There were signs of revelry at No. 100 , Grosvenor Square : music , lights , awnings and link- men evidenced a ball at Mrs. Grahame's . Proceeding upstairs , two remembered yet altered faces strike one's 32 A GREAT SENSATION .
... tops . There were signs of revelry at No. 100 , Grosvenor Square : music , lights , awnings and link- men evidenced a ball at Mrs. Grahame's . Proceeding upstairs , two remembered yet altered faces strike one's 32 A GREAT SENSATION .
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acute Dowager answered Rupert beauty beg your pardon better brother Cadogan Place Carlsbad carriage cat's-paw Caterina CHAPTER cheek Constance countenance course daresay daugh door drawing-room Edgar Edith Ernsford Court eyes fact feel Francesca da Rimini gallery gone Grahame Grahame's Grosvenor Square half hand hear heard heart hobbledehoy hope horse hour idle pairs instant Jemima Kensington Gardens Lady Goodwin Lady Ravensdale less London look Lord Elfin Lord Elfintower Lord Elfintower's Lord Ravensdale Lord Sevenoaks mean mind minutes Molini Moorfield morning mysterious lady never o'clock passed pause Perringston position Pre-Raphaelite Ravensdale's recognised replied rose round Schönbeck seen Sir John Campion slapping fine woman slowly soon sorrow sort South Eastern Railway Spuckers stance stood suppose sure talk tell there's thing thought tion told tone turned Twinbriggles voice walked watching week whilst wish words
Passatges populars
Pàgina 51 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Pàgina 6 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pàgina 5 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all...
Pàgina 209 - Amor, ma tu allor più m'informe A seguir d'una fera che mi strugge La voce ei passi e l'orme, E lei non stringi, che s'appiatta e fugge.
Pàgina 41 - Sunt quibus in satira videar nimis acer et ultra legem tendere opus; sine nervis altera quidquid composui pars esse putat, similisque meorum mille die versus deduci posse. Trebati, quid faciam praescribe. 'quiescas.
Pàgina 193 - I can't think who can have put such an idea into your head.
Pàgina 261 - You are like a young bear : you have all your troubles before you.
Pàgina 14 - I have no more to do with her than the man in the moon; but I know all about her, and I wish to be of use to her if I can.