The Heart's Justice

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George H. Doran Company, 1922 - 316 pages

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Page 115 - THE WANING MOON AND like a dying lady, lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapt in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain, The moon arose up in the murky east, A white and shapeless mass.
Page 128 - With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade.
Page 251 - Little Miss Muffet, she sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey; Along came a spider and sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away!
Page 241 - You're a vile tempered loose-living wicked little beast, and I never want to see you again so long as I live. He flings her away from him, she staggers, and falls against a chair. They stand gasping at one another in silence for a moment. AMANDA (very quietly): This is the end, do you understand? The end, finally and forever. She goes to the door, which opens on to the landing, and wrenches it open. He rushes...
Page 261 - He looked as if he might burst into tears at any moment. "Yes, most inconsiderate,
Page 143 - The laws that are the wonder of the wise, And why they smile so strangely who are dead.
Page 103 - Alone with egotism, and other little soul maladies of envy and discontent " Though she had never heard him talk this way before she recognized a characteristic prejudice.
Page 96 - there's a saying that one must be a little too kind in order to be kind enough. Here we are so soon. I wish it might have been longer.
Page 30 - It was no more than an inch and a half long, and disappeared when Sterling sought to snare it with his own. Nevertheless the fact of it remained. "Father isn't really delicate,

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