Under Sealed Orders: A Novel

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New Amsterdam Book Company, 1896 - 321 pages
 

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Page 50 - He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Page 260 - I shall die as my fathers died, and sleep as they sleep ; even so. For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span ; A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which...
Page 156 - Let the sweet heavens endure, Not close and darken above me Before I am quite quite sure That there is one to love me ; Then let come what come may To a life that has been so sad, I shall have had my day.
Page 237 - I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend. Thou art more than the day or the morrow, the seasons that laugh or that weep ; For these give joy and sorrow; but thou, Proserpina, sleep. Sweet is the treading of wine, and sweet the feet of the dove; But a goodlier gift is thine than foam of the grapes or love. Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold, A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?
Page 151 - ROCOCO. TAKE hands and part with laughter; Touch lips and part with tears ; Once more and no more after, Whatever comes with years. We twain shall not remeasure The ways that left us twain ; Nor crush the lees of pleasure From sanguine grapes of pain. We twain once well in sunder, What will the mad gods do For hate with me, I wonder, Or what for love with you ? Forget them...
Page 4 - Very impertinent, ma'am,' answered the maid demurely. She knew it was as much as her place was worth to make any other reply. ' These people have no conscience, Collinson, have they? And I think she has charged exorbitantly for my Goodwood dresses; 'quite out of all reason. Don't you think so ?'
Page 18 - Child," he said, laying his hand on the young man's shoulder, with a kindness which almost always created the confidence it expressed, " there is something in this business more than you have communicated, or less than you imagine. If these men proposed an outrage against your life, why did they leave the opportunity and the work unfinished ; and if they never attempted...
Page 122 - Divine nature, and were supposed to make the rain fall, and the crops grow apace, their subjects got angry with them when the food-supplies fell short, and killed them off rapidly...
Page 184 - How can you be happy here, in this land of exile, while in the country where you were born people are dying of hunger...
Page 299 - lodger downstairs, a woman with great staring eyes, a milliner or something,' whom he took to be a spy—who on earth could it be but Olga Mireff?

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