The Hillyars and the Burtons: A Story of Two Families, כרך 1Ticknor and Fields, 1865 - 419 עמודים |
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afraid ain't asked Battersea Bridge beautiful began better blacksmith brother Charles Morton Chelsea colony Compton Cooksland cousin dark Dawson dead dear devil door Emma Erne Hillyar Erne's escritoire eyes face father fellow fool forest gentle gentleman George's Gerty glad gone hand head heard heart honor horse Jack Martin JAMES BURTON'S STORY James Oxton Joe's knew Lady Hillyar laughing looked Lord matter mind Miss Burke morning Morton mother Nalder never night O'Ryan Omeo once Palmerston poor remember Reuben round Samuel Burton Secretary seemed seen silent Sir George Hillyar sister speak stairs Stanlake stood strange talk tell terrible thing thought told Tom Williams took Trevittick tulip-tree turned voice wait walked wife wild wind wish woman wonder word young
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עמוד 310 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, 1 And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho...
עמוד 10 - ... was no house to move into, except into a very large house which stood by itself, as it were fronting the buildings opposite our forge ; which contained twenty-five rooms, some of them very large, and which was called by us indifferently, Church Place, or Queen Elizabeth's Palace. It had been in reality the palace of the young Earl of Essex ; a very large three-storied house of old brick, with stone-mullioned windows and doorways.
עמוד 14 - He had always been so especially hard on a certain kind of young English gentleman, who has sailed too close to the wind at home, and who comes to the colony to be whitewashed. He had fulminated against that sort of thing so strongly. From his place in the House he had denounced it time after time. That his colony, his own colony, which he had helped to make, was to become a...
עמוד 57 - Old hand " was too plainly written on the face to be mistaken. They insensibly altered their demeanor towards him at once. To their kind hospitality, which had been offered to him before they saw what he was, was now added respectful deference, and a scarcely concealed desire to propitiate. Seven honest good fellows, were respectfully afraid of one rogue ; and the rogue was perfectly aware of the fact, and treated them accordingly ; much as a hawk would treat a cote-full of pigeons, if he found...
עמוד 64 - Four hundred years of memory," continued Joe, " are crowded into that dark old church, and the great flood of change beats round the walls, and shakes the door in vain, but never enters. The dead stand thick together there, as if to make a brave resistance to the moving world outside, which jars upon their slumber.
עמוד 10 - ... great attraction for us children. In the first place it was empty ; in the second place, it had been inhabited by real princesses ; and in the third, there was a ghost, who used to show a light in the aforementioned dormer window the first Friday in every month. On the summer's evenings we had been used to see it towering aloft between us and the setting sun, which filled the great room on the first floor with light, some rays of which came through into our narrow street. Mother had actually...
עמוד 142 - ... strange, and were, Lord bless you, more particular over their rations than any corn-stalk cockatoo who might have treed his section on the burst, and come back to the shed : or than any real stringy back hand ever thought of being. She didn't see why they should not all move over together. It wouldn't do to leave the Queen behind ; but she might get to think better of it as soon as she saw how much superior Australia was to England.
עמוד 180 - If we can find no will And that we shall never do." " You have heard what he has said," said George to Erne, wiping his mangled lips, " and you heard what I said just now. This house is mine. Go. I will never forget and never forgive. Go." Erne turned on his heel, and went without a word. The last he remembers was seeing his brother stand looking at him with his face all bloody, scowling. And then he was out of the house into the sunshine, and all the past was a cloud to him. God had punished him...
עמוד 4 - ... the man, my love. Look at his insolent, contradictory manner. Look at that nasty drop he has in his eyes. Look at his character for profligacy. Look at his unpopularity in the force ; and then think of our beautiful little Gerty being handed over to such a man. Oh ! Lord, you know it really is " " I hate the man as much as you do,
עמוד 57 - ... party grew stronger and stronger. Many of the Scottish nobles joined Wallace. 4. John Oxenford lived in Clifton Terrace. His favorite author was Sir Walter Scott. 5. The natives of the Andaman Islands were said to be ignorant of the use of fire. These natives were firm believers in witchcraft. 6. Five or six men were seated on logs and stools round the chimney.