Ernest Maltravers Or The EleusiniaJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1874 - 575 |
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... thing to a pretty girl , without hurting her feelings , or her father's either . " " Half a foreigner ! why you talk English as well as I do , " said the host , whose intonation and words were , on the whole , a little above his station ...
... thing to a pretty girl , without hurting her feelings , or her father's either . " " Half a foreigner ! why you talk English as well as I do , " said the host , whose intonation and words were , on the whole , a little above his station ...
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... thing of the sober Englishman about him . Whatever was strange and eccentric had an irresistible charm for Ernest Maltravers . And agreeably to this disposition , he now revolved an idea that enchanted his mobile and fantastic ...
... thing of the sober Englishman about him . Whatever was strange and eccentric had an irresistible charm for Ernest Maltravers . And agreeably to this disposition , he now revolved an idea that enchanted his mobile and fantastic ...
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... things , he was most interested in any display of human passions or affections ; he loved to see the true colors of the heart , where they are most transparent - in the un- educated and poor - for he was something of an optimist , and ...
... things , he was most interested in any display of human passions or affections ; he loved to see the true colors of the heart , where they are most transparent - in the un- educated and poor - for he was something of an optimist , and ...
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... thing to have an ear , and a voice , and a heart for music ; and you have all three . " He paused , for he felt his hand touched ; Alice suddenly clasped and kissed it . Maltravers thrilled through his whole frame ; but there was ...
... thing to have an ear , and a voice , and a heart for music ; and you have all three . " He paused , for he felt his hand touched ; Alice suddenly clasped and kissed it . Maltravers thrilled through his whole frame ; but there was ...
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... thing was in order , yet by a kind of magic , just as he wished it ; the flowers he loved best , bloomed , fresh athered , on his table ; the very position of the large chair , just in that corner by the fire - place , whence on ...
... thing was in order , yet by a kind of magic , just as he wished it ; the flowers he loved best , bloomed , fresh athered , on his table ; the very position of the large chair , just in that corner by the fire - place , whence on ...
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Strona 40 - Maltravers had abundant resources in himself. He placed Shakspeare and Schiller on his table, and lighted his German meerschaum — he read till he became inspired, and then he wrote — and when he had composed a few stanzas he was not contented till he had set them to music and tried their melody with his voice. For he had all the passion of a German for song and music— that wild Maltravers ! —and his voice was sweet, his taste consummate, his science profound. As the sun puts out a star, so...
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