Dead men's shoes, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'., Volume 2

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J. Maxwell and Company, 1876
 

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Page 63 - ... became absolutely necessary that she should have a civil and political existence and authority, — that she should be incorporated into the state, as an integral element of the civil constitution, and have her worship, without which she could have as little social as religious influence, recognized as the law of the land as well as the law of God.
Page 134 - ... recovering from the effect of that midnight skirmish in the jungle, and during my recovery I had full opportunity to pity Lithway. It became quite clear to me that the presences at Braythe concerned themselves only with major dooms. If Lithway's ghost had been his wife, his wife must have been a bad lot. I am as certain as I can be of anything that he was exceedingly unhappy with her. It was a thousand pities that, for so many years, he had misunderstood the vision; that he had permitted himself—...
Page 38 - I wonder you are so fond of mauve, Sibyl," she says, after a critical survey of her sister's hat. " It doesn't suit you by any means. You look as white as chalk." " The warm weather is rather trying," answers Sibyl. " And you have such black marks under your eyes." " I have not slept well lately." "You look like it. One would think you had something dreadful on your conscience. Take that horrid caterpillar off the bread-and-butter plate, Jenny. I declare this den of yours swarms with reptiles. I...

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