 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 314 pages
...asked me to give shelter to things belonging to him, which, when the storm had blown over, he had taken back again. I did not suppose that in this storm he...pecuniary embarrassment was not what sunk him. It was a wind still more east : it was the despair of the ambition by which he lived, and without which he could... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 318 pages
...asked me to give shelter to things belonging to him, which, when the storm had blown over, he had taken back again. I did not suppose that in this storm he was to sink — poor noble soul ! " A nd be sure that the pecuniary embarrassment was not what sunk him. It was a wind still more east... | |
 | Gertrude Townshend Mayer - Authors, English - 1894 - 360 pages
...asked me to give shelter to things belonging to him, which, when the storm had blown over, he had taken back again. I did not suppose that in this storm he was to sink—poor noble soul!" " My beloved friend Elizabeth Barrett is married ! Love really is the wizard... | |
 | George Paston - Painters - 1905 - 350 pages
...those who try too openly for its gratitude." And, again, in a letter to Miss Mitford, she says : " I did not suppose that in this storm he was to sink...pecuniary embarrassment was not what sunk him. It was a wind still more east ; it was the despair of the ambition by which he lived, and without which he could... | |
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I imagine that it was other than one of the passing embarrassments so unhappily frequent with him. Once before he had asked me to give shelter to things belonging to him, which, when the storm had blown over, he had taken back again. I did not suppose... 