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... Oh , I know all about it ! Gladys , this parasol is beyond hope . Let's conceal it in the bushes like a corpse . " Daisy looked round with a wild and suspicious eye . " There's a policeman , " she said . " 8 DAISY'S AUNT .
... Oh , I know all about it ! Gladys , this parasol is beyond hope . Let's conceal it in the bushes like a corpse . " Daisy looked round with a wild and suspicious eye . " There's a policeman , " she said . " 8 DAISY'S AUNT .
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... eye for all this ; she was burning to know what was the latest development in the Willie affair , but her whole - hearted affection for her cousin was a little touched by timidity , and she did not quite like to question her . For Daisy ...
... eye for all this ; she was burning to know what was the latest development in the Willie affair , but her whole - hearted affection for her cousin was a little touched by timidity , and she did not quite like to question her . For Daisy ...
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... eyes on to the activity of the playing children . But silences were generally short when Daisy was present , and she proceeded to unfold herself with rapidity and all the naturalness of which she deplored the lack in the gentle , good ...
... eyes on to the activity of the playing children . But silences were generally short when Daisy was present , and she proceeded to unfold herself with rapidity and all the naturalness of which she deplored the lack in the gentle , good ...
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... eyes for a moment to encourage bravery . ' I suppose it means that it means that you are thinking whether you will marry Lord Lindfield or not , " she said . Daisy , however peremptory , was not a bully . " How did you guess that , dear ...
... eyes for a moment to encourage bravery . ' I suppose it means that it means that you are thinking whether you will marry Lord Lindfield or not , " she said . Daisy , however peremptory , was not a bully . " How did you guess that , dear ...
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... this particular day to return to England , and the whole world , with an eye on the Channel , desired private cabins , which were numerically less than the demand . At the moment he was trying to keep calm before Chapter III.
... this particular day to return to England , and the whole world , with an eye on the Channel , desired private cabins , which were numerically less than the demand . At the moment he was trying to keep calm before Chapter III.
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afternoon already Anthony Hope asked Daisy Aunt Alice Aunt Jeannie believe better Boulter's Lock Bray charming coming Daisy's darling dear Alice Diana dine dinner dreadful E. F. BENSON Egerton Castle eyes face feel felt flirt friends friendship garden girl glad Gladys gone guess Halton hand happened happy hate headache heard heart hope hour Jeannie paused Jeannie's Jim Crowfoot John Buchan John Masefield Jove knew Lady Nottingham laughed leant light Lord Lindfield lunch maid mean meant mind Miss Daisy morning motor never nice night once play PRESTER JOHN promise Puffing Billy punt quietly round seemed settle smile sort soul speak Streatham suddenly suppose sure talk tell thing thought tired to-morrow told Tom Lindfield trouble turned Victor Braithwaite voice W. K. Clifford want to marry Willie wish woman wonder
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Page 317 - A book of verses underneath the bough, A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness — O wilderness were Paradise enow.
Page 69 - Daisy gave an altogether excessive florin to the cabman, who held it in the palm of his hand, and looked at it as if it were some curious botanical specimen hitherto unknown to him. " And one usually says ' Thank you ! ' " she observed. — " Yes, Lord Lindfield, let's dance now and then.
Page 107 - the horror of it. What are we to do? What are we to do?" "There is but one thing to do, Alice," and he spoke as quietly as though they were sitting in their snug living room at home, "and that is work. Work must be our salvation. We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness. "We must work and wait. I am sure that relief will come, and...
Page 126 - 'Never mind me! It is nothing — much! I have had it before — once ! Go — fly ! They will suspect me — and you — ' " She shuddered, and put her hands over her eyes as if to shut out some terrible picture.
Page 50 - For each glance of the eye so bright and black, Though I keep with heart's endeavour, — Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back, Though it stay in my soul for ever ! — Yet I will but say what mere friends say, Or only a thought stronger ; I will hold your hand but as long as all may, Or so very little longer...