The Robertses on Their Travels, Tom 1

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H. Colburn, 1846 - 264
 

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Strona 105 - It was only when I began to study psychical research and mystical philosophy that I broke away from my father's influence. He had been a follower of John Stuart Mill and so had never shared Rossetti's conviction that it mattered to nobody whether the sun went round the earth or the earth round the sun.
Strona 66 - ... made him of his own, the more deeply he became convinced that though it might be in his power to make them all lead a life of wrangling dissension, it was not in his power to keep them within the bounds of what he considered to be prudence, and he therefore deliberately and resolutely decided upon letting them have their own way. He thought it most likely that his wife would stop short before she had spent quite all that he had belonging to him, and that the best thing he could do would be to...
Strona 311 - Agatha what she thinks. You have a monstrous deal of observation, Agatha — nobody can deny that — and I wish you would tell me now, quite confidentially, as one friend might speak to another, what do you think about it ? " "About what, ma'am?" said Agatha, raising her eyebrows. "About Lord Lynberry, my dear. Do you think, from what you have seen yourself, and from what you have heard your sister now say, that we may expect his lordship to propose for her ? Now speak plain and clear, Agatha, and...
Strona 187 - Italian that let which would be right, and which wrong, it was not fitting to beat a strange gentleman about in that way, and that he feared mischief might come of it; adding that the safest course would be not to interfere at all, but to let the gentleman take care of the lady, as he was doubtless the fit person to do so. The frightened post-boy disengaged himself from Bertha's arms, and slunk away, for the speaker was one of the greatest men in the country, and steward moreover to a cardinal. In...
Strona 258 - And now every thing being settled, and 30 every thing being packed, the whole family, but no longer encumbered by a servant, repaired to the Messagerie, and stowed themselves into the interior of the diligence bound to Strasbourg. One of Mrs. Roberts...
Strona 304 - I see no sort of necessity for that, ma'am," said Agatha. " It would be a monstrous bore indeed, if people were obliged to stay in a house whether they liked it or not, merely because they had taken it. It would be positively turning one's house into a gaol." " But what is one to do, Agatha ?" said Mrs. Roberts, looking greatly dismayed. " You know as well as I do, that we pushed things pretty far, when we took such an expensive house, and just think what your father would say if we were to go away...
Strona 271 - TRAVELS. her child was born, to his remote castle in Ireland, he never arranged any other removal for her, but without alluding to any cause whatever for his conduct, he gradually withdrew himself from her society, passing the greater part of his time in London, but still occasionally paying a visit of a few days at a time to his castle, his wife, and his child, so that he could not strictly be said to live separately from her. But it would have been greatly more for her happiness had he done so...
Strona 198 - Holiness," and here he crossed himself, " it would be quite a different matter. But as it is, I should be in great danger of doing more wrong than right by interfering." And having thus spoken, he deliberately turned round and began to walk away. " Stay, father !" cried Bertha, stepping rapidly but not vehemently after him,
Strona 258 - the old man," and they find only the old woman. If Lord Punch could only discard his Judy, he would be quite another lord. The best thing he could do under the circumstances, would be to announce, by advertisement in the newspapers, that he will no longer hold himself responsible for her sayings, doings, or goings on, — as men are sometimes obliged to warn the public that they mean to repudiate their wives

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