An Eye for an EyeB. Tauchnitz, 1879 - 295 pages |
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Page 212 - English country gentleman ; and it will be your business in life to do your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you.
Page 176 - How ugly the country was to his eyes as he now saw it Here and there stood a mud cabin, and the small, half-cultivated fields, or rather patches of land, in which the thin oat crops were beginning to be green, were surrounded by low loose ramshackle walls, which were little more than heaps of stone, so carelessly had they been built and so negligently preserved. A...
Page 134 - She gave him her hand; — and he raised it to his lips and kissed it, as men were wont to do in the olden days.
Page 70 - ... But how could she send her girl forth into the world without sending her certainly among the wolves? And yet that piteous question was always sounding in her ears. "Mother, is it always to be like this?" Then Lieutenant Neville had appeared upon the scene, dressed in a sailor's jacket and trowsers, with a sailor's cap upon his head, with a loose handkerchief round his neck and his hair blowing to the wind. In the eyes of Kate O'Hara he was an Apollo. In the eyes of any girl he must have seemed...
Page 232 - ... had intended to surround him. The stake for which they had played had been very great To be Countess of Scroope was indeed a chance worth some risk. Then, as he breasted the hill up towards the burial ground, he tried to strengthen his courage by realizing the magnitude of his own position. He bade himself remember that he was among people who were his inferiors in rank, education, wealth, manners, religion and nationality.
Page 220 - It was terrible that a young man who had it in his power to do so much good or so much...
Page 178 - I'm sorry your wife's so touchy; but you mustn't forget old Daddy Dawson. Come, my boy, to our house, like you used to, when you and Sammy and Nancy used to sit round the bowl of buttermilk under the big oak that covered Mammy Dawson's dairy. I always think of poor Sammy when I see you" (brushing a tear from his eye with the back of his hand). "I'm obliged to love you, you young dog; and I want to love your wife too, if she'd let me; but, be that as it may, Sammy's playmate won't forget Daddy Dawson...
Page 152 - O'Hara had lost her husband. Not that he admitted for a moment that Captain O'Hara's return, if he had returned, would justify the lover in deserting the girl; but that he perceived that Neville had already allowed himself to entertain the plea. The whole affair had in the priest's estimation been full of peril; but then the prize to be won was very...
Page 28 - ... indulge in that wild district the spirit of adventure which was strong within him. When young men are anxious to indulge the spirit of adventure, they generally do so by falling in love with young women of whom their fathers and mothers would not approve.