Wild Wood: A Novel, Volume 1Newby, 1872 - 314 pages |
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Page 181 - I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away...
Page 65 - ... So-and-so looking old, did you say ? Impossible ! she is quite a young person : only a year older than I — and that would make her just .... Bless me ! I am forgetting how time goes on. Yes," — with a faint deprecation which truth forbids you to contradict, and politeness to notice, — " I suppose we are neither of us so young as we used to be.