The gipsy, by the author of 'Richelieu'.

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1835
 

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Strona 236 - Who beats his wife and a' that, Be nothing but a rascal boor, Nor half a man for a' that. It comes to this, dear Brother Burns — The truth is old, and a' that — "The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gold for a...
Strona 239 - ... opposition ; but when death has stilled her monitory voice, and nothing but calm memory remains to recapitulate her virtues and good deeds, affection, like a flower beaten to the ground by a past storm, raises up her head and smiles amongst her tears.
Strona 202 - ... should be happy to do any thing to serve his lordship ; and the peer proceeded to explain. •' The fact is," he said, " that last night, in a terrible deer-stealing affray, which took place at Dimden, a poor friend of mine was severely wounded, and is not expected to live from hour to hour. Among his baggage, which remains here at the hall, he tells me that there are papers of great importance ; and, indeed, he wished me to bring them to him ; but as his mind is not itself, and his faculties...
Strona 239 - Round that idea, as we have said, the mind clings with fond affection ; and even when the early period of our loss forces memory to be silent, fancy takes the place of remembrance, and twines the image of our dead parent with a garland of graces and beauties and virtues, which we doubt not that she possessed.
Strona 238 - ... through life. Our passions and our wilfulness may lead us far from the object of our filial love ; we learn even to pain her heart, to oppose her wishes, to violate her commands; we may become wild, headstrong, and angry at her counsels or...
Strona 42 - ... least, if my maid has told me true : but I trust it is not true; for I cannot believe that Edward can be safe, if she spoke correctly ; she said you had found his footsteps, and blood, Colonel Manners, and the place where he must have fallen.
Strona 7 - At the mouths of one or two of these little dwelling-places might be seen some gipsy women with their peculiar straw bonnets, red cloaks, and silk handkerchiefs ; some withered, shrunk, and witch-like, bore evident the traces of long years of wandering exposure and vicissitude ; while others, with the warm rose of health and youth glowing through the golden brown of their skins, and their dark gem-like eyes flashing undimmed by sorrow or infirmity, gave the beau ideal of a beautiful nation long passed...
Strona 253 - ... day in Cornwall Gardens, and it was not my fault that I married him. I have been very miserable, and I don't suppose I shall ever be happy again. But the world is a large place, and I am going to wander about; I have always longed to see the whole of it; now I shall go to the east and the west and the north and the south like a wandering Jewess.

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